Putin assessed the work of the Russian military during the NVO

Russian soldiers and fighters of Donbass honorably fulfill their duty as part of a special military operation (SVO), Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the Army-2022 open forum in Patriot Park, transmits TASS.

“Today, in the course of a special military operation, our soldiers, together with the fighters of Donbass, are honorably fulfilling their duty, fighting for Russia, for a peaceful life in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. They are clearly fulfilling all the assigned tasks, step by step they are liberating the land of Donbass,” he said.

Former President of Russia declared about the need to respond harshly to attempts to falsify history, as well as to suppress any manifestations of neo-Nazism, Russophobia and racism.

Earlier today became knownthat the city of Seversk in the DPR is blocked from three sides by Russian troops and units of the DPR and LPR. The city is located 30 km west of Lisichansk, which Russian troops took full control of in early July.

On February 24, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, the purpose of which was the denazification, demilitarization and liberation of the territories of the LPR and DPR. On July 3, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to Putin on the liberation of the LPR. The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, stated that the allied forces managed to liberate 266 settlements in the DPR, or about half of the entire territory of the republic.

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