Russian security service officers have found ammunition caches on the premises of a ruined school in Svetlichnoye which were intended for terrorist attacks in the Lugansk People's Republic by Ukrainian saboteurs during the New Year holidays, a security service source said.
“Russian security services found two caches of ammunition in the Svetlichnoye settlement of the Lugansk People’s Republic. They were intended for Ukrainian saboteurs who had to carry out acts of terror against civilians in the period of New Year holidays,” the source said. “The caches contained ten 82mm mortar rounds and 24 fragmentation and high-explosive 125mm rounds.”
Military engineers destroyed the ammunition on the spot.
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, 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 became a part of Russia on September 30, 2022 following the unification referendum.*i*v
