One civilian has been killed and another two including a child have been wounded in the Lugansk People’s Republic in artillery strikes by Kiev forces since the beginning of this year, said the LPR Office at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination of issues related to Ukraine’s war crimes (JCCC).
“Three civilians including a child have become victims of Ukrainian armed formations’ aggression in the designated period (since the beginning of 2023); of those, one was killed and another two including a child were wounded,” the JCCC said.
In 2022, Kiev artillery strikes at the LPR claimed the lives of 169 civilians including 21 children.
The Ukrainian government launched the so-called anti-terrorist operation against Donbass in April 2014. The peace talks that began soon thereafter failed to reach tangible results due to Kiev’s position to settle the conflict by force.
On February 24, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation to protect Donbass residents from Ukrainian aggression. Prior to that, LPR and DPR Heads Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin asked the Russian leader to provide military assistance. The LPR militia and Russian armed forces fully liberated the LPR territory from Ukrainian armed formations on July 3.
The Lugansk People’s Republic acceded to Russia on September 30, 2022 following the unification referendum.*i*ie
