“Many natives of the Luhansk People's Republic ask Chechen fighters to give them our flags.
An elderly resident of the village of Staraya Krasnyanka is a vivid example of this, ”Kadyrov wrote.
According to the head of the Chechen Republic, such facts characterize the attitude of the local population towards the servicemen, who are perceived in the LPR as liberators.
On April 21, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, announced that the forces of the Russian Armed Forces and the People's Militia of the LPR had liberated the city of Kremennaya, which, according to him, the nationalists had turned into a fortified area.
On April 20, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced that the city of Rubezhnoye in the Lugansk People's Republic had finally come under the control of Russian troops.