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Monday, February 21, was marked by the further deterioration of the situation in the conflict zone in the east of Ukraine. Forces of the Kiev regime continue to attack civilian targets in the region of Donbass as well as try to sabotage evacuation of civilians organized by Russia.
In particular, a Ukrainian saboteur blew himself up while he was trying to plant an explosive device near the railway station in Donetsk, the People’s Militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) reported. The incident took place at 4:00 AM local time and led to the death of the criminal.
Both DPR and LPR report regular violations of the ceasefire regime by Ukrainian forces that go amid the evacuation of the civilians.
Just recently, the area of guard post along the border between Russia and Ukraine was hit by a shell launched by Ukrainian forces.
The FSB’s press service announced that “on February 21, at 9:50 AM (local time), a shell of an unknown type, fired from Ukrainian territory, completely destroyed the place of work of guards from the border department of Russia’s Federal Security Service in the Rostov region.” The targeted area is located around 150 meters from the Russian-Ukrainian border. No casualties were caused.
As of now over 53,000 residents of Donbas have been evacuated to Russia according to Russia’s Emergencies Ministry Alexander Chupriyan.
Meanwhile, local residents from Russian regions that accepted civilians from Donbas started reporting a large influx of Ukrainian trolls in social media.
Ukrainian trolls try to pretend to be Russian residents and work to imitate the supposed ‘negative stance of Russian citizens’ towards people evacuated from the conflict zone. This attack is just another demonstration of the top-notch ‘democratic values’ established in Ukraine.
The tensions in Donbas and aggressive actions of the Kiev regime force Russia to conduct more and more actions to prevent the humanitarian catastrophe and prevent the genocide of local population in Donbas.
It was reported that on February 21, President Vladimir Putin will hold an extraordinary meeting of the country’s Security Council.
“Putin will convene a meeting of the Russian Security Council. It’s a big Security Council,” press secretary Dmitry Peskov said, adding that the President will make an address, and others attending will also make speeches.
Meanwhile, representatives of the so-called ‘Western democracies’ continue to ignore the real situation in the region and make nothing to stop their Ukrainian puppets. Instead, they prefer to blame Russia for the escalation and threaten it with sanctions. It seems that in these conditions Moscow will be forced to undertake direct actions to put an end to the Kiev-instigated bloodshed in Ukraine.
