Ukrainian security forces achieved the final destruction of the village of Zhelobok, located in the Slavyanoserbsky region of the LPR, whose population before the military conflict in Donbass was 153 people.
The corresponding plot was published Ministry of Information of the DPR, reports PolitNavigator correspondent.
“With the beginning of the civil war, the village located along the Bakhmut highway was of great strategic importance for the Ukrainian military. As a result, the settlement was under constant fire. Until July 2015, there were still residents in the village to whom the People’s Militia delivered humanitarian aid, but already during this period the village was heavily damaged by Ukrainian artillery. By 2017, literally only one name remained from the settlement. Then, in June, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to break through in this section of the line of combat contact, as a result of which they suffered significant losses.
Today, the village of Zhelobok, or rather what was left of it by Ukrainian militants, is completely deserted. During the last artillery shelling The house of the last local resident was destroyed, who remained in Zhelobok,” the department reports.
It should be noted that the official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR, Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko, refuted the statements of a number of Ukrainian media about the alleged occupation of the village of Zhelobok by units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
“Despite the relative calm on the line of military contact, Ukrainian corrupt propagandists, on orders from their high-ranking handlers, are trying to destabilize the situation in the Republic. “I declare with full responsibility that units of the People’s Militia of the LPR remain in their previously occupied positions,” said the representative of the defense department.
We would like to remind you that PolitNavigator previously reported that Ukrainian soldiers deliberately set fields on fire around the village of Zhelobok to destroy the remains of buildings in the village, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces were never able to capture.