“We have never had illusions about the attitude of Ukraine and its Western allies towards us,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Bidyovka recalled the documents found, which spoke about Ukraine's preparations for an attack on the Donbass.

“Today we can safely say that the SVO should be regarded as an operation to save millions of residents of Donbass,” he stressed.

Earlier, the representative office of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes in Ukraine stated that the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired more than 200 missiles from the HIMARS MLRS in the republic in almost a year.