“Despite the large-scale Western assistance to the Kyiv regime and sanctions pressure on Russia, we will continue the special military operation until all tasks are completed,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

In early May, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the Russian military, while carrying out the tasks of the operation in Ukraine, would not artificially adjust their actions to some date.

As the head of state Vladimir Putin emphasized, all the tasks of the military operation carried out in the Donbass and Ukraine will be completed.

On May 24, the city of Svetlodarsk came under the control of the Donetsk People's Republic.