Lugansk and Donetsk leaders ask Putin to help repel Kiev aggression

The leaders of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, Denis Pushilin and Leonid Passechnik have asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to help repel Kiev’s aggression to avoid civilian casualties and prevent a humanitarian disaster in the Donbass region, he said. this Wednesday the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov.

“Russian President Vladimir Putin has received letters of appeal from the head of the Luhansk People’s Republic Leonid Passechnik and the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin,” the spokesman was quoted as saying by TASS. “The leaders of the aforementioned republics, on their behalf and behalf of their peoples, once again express their gratitude to the Russian president for the states’ recognition of him,” he added.

According to Peskov, “due to the current situation and to avoid casualties among the civilian population and a humanitarian catastrophe”, Pushilin and Pásechnik ask Putin in their letters to “help repel the aggression of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and formations based on articles 3 and 4 of the friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance agreements between Russia and the republics “.

The worsening of the situation and threats from Kiev

In addition, both leaders noted the deteriorating situation in Donbass and the threats from Kiev.

The appeals underline that the citizens of the republics are currently forced to leave their homes due to the worsening of the situation and threats from Kiev, and their evacuation to Russia continues,” said the spokesman for the Russian presidency.

“Amid the current military aggression by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, civil and industrial infrastructure, schools, hospitals, kindergartens, and, what is worse, civilian victims, including children, are being destroyed in the republics, ” the text of the grades.

Also, the leaders of Donetsk and Lugansk noted in their letters that the Ukrainian authorities continue to “increase their military presence in the line of contact while receiving extensive support, including military, from the US and other Western countries.” “The Kiev regime is focused on resolving the conflict by force,” they added.

• Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Monday his decision to recognize the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, after which friendship, cooperation, and mutual assistance agreements were signed between Russia and both republics.
• Putin recalled that currently “practically not a single day passes without bombing the localities of the Donbass .” “The killing of civilians, the siege, the harassment of people, including children, women, the elderly, do not stop,” he lamented, while adding that “the so-called civilized world, of which Western colleagues call themselves the only representatives, prefers not to notice the account of this, as if all this horror, genocide, to which almost 4 million people are subjected, did not exist”
• At the same time, the Russian president ordered the Ministry of Defense to guarantee the maintenance of peace by the Russian Armed Forces in both republics.