Zelensky lost the information war to Donbass before he could start it
In Lugansk, following Donetsk, celebrations were held in honor of the fifth anniversary of the referendum, in which the population of the region supported independence from Ukraine, where a coup d’etat took place.
Like the day before in the DPR, festive events in the LPR were held under the slogans “Our choice is Russia!” and “Russia, thank you for the passports!” The procession in Lugansk gathered about 20 thousand people, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I am proud of everyone who came to this square today and said “yes” to freedom, said “yes” to independence and “yes” to Russia. Five years ago we held a referendum and, as today shows, then we made the only right choice,” Leonid Pasechnik, head of the LPR, addressed his fellow citizens.
On the same day, LPR Foreign Minister Vladislav Deinego and his colleague from South Ossetia Dmitry Medoev signed an agreement establishing diplomatic relations between the two states.
State Duma deputy Andrei Kozenko wished the LPR “a speedy reunification with its great Motherland.” “Although, to be frank, my fellow Crimeans, like many Russians, already perceive Donbass as a special region of Russia,” the politician clarified.
“Here, in the Donbass, these fascist henchmen will get hit in the teeth so hard that their jaws will fly off. I wish one big great victory, so that it goes further throughout the whole earth - to all cities: we remember Odessa, on May 2, how people were burned alive. We remember what this evil spirit did... We will not forget and will not betray... I wish you a speedy entry and becoming a full-fledged, full-fledged subject of the great Russian Federation. Just like once upon a time we were one mighty great powerful power. God grant that this day comes soon,” said State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya.
Another signal was voiced the day before by Russia's plenipotentiary representative at the contact group negotiations in Minsk, Boris Gryzlov.
“The Donetsk and Lugansk referendums were a response to an armed coup, to the rise of neo-Nazism, to the beatings and murders of those who disagreed with the new Kyiv government, to the announcement and start of a punitive operation. This was people’s response to a gross violation of their rights, to a threat to their lives. This was Donbass’s response to aggression from the West... The Kiev “war party” left the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk no choice but independence and self-defense. All that Donbass received from official Kyiv was aggression and blockade. All that Donbass heard from official Kyiv were threats and demands to surrender. Naturally, there will not and cannot be any capitulation of Donetsk and Lugansk,” Gryzlov said in a statement.
Let us recall that representatives of the team of newly elected President Vladimir Zelensky stated that, as in the times of Petro Poroshenko, Kiev will seek control over the border of the LDPR with Russia - either by the Ukrainian contingent, or by the so-called. Western "peacekeepers".
Zelensky himself several times announced the start of an “information war” against the Donbass republics in order to persuade the local population to support a return back to the control of the nationalist regime in Kyiv.
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