DPR armored vehicles invaded Lugansk

A large column of armored vehicles of the DPR invaded Lugansk. The video on which the movement of equipment was recorded in the 1st microdistrict of the city appeared on the evening of November 21 on the Drugoi Lugansk YouTube channel.

On the afternoon, commenting on “112 - Ukrainian” confrontation in Lugansk, a civil activist from the region Dmitry Snegirev already said that, according to some information, a detachment of militants of the DPR arrived in the city.

However, the “deputy commander of the DPR operational department, Eduard Basurin, in a conversation with RBC an hour and a half later assured that the Donetsk militants in the Lugansk conflict did not take part. “I don’t know what is happening there, this is another territory,” Basurin reported the publication.

Meanwhile, the expert Bellingcat Arik Toler noted on his Twitter that the armored personnel carrier, shot on Tuesday on Lugansk Street, previously appeared in the pictures of "DPR special forces".

In turn, Snegirev in an interview with "112 - Ukrainian" reminded that in 2016, Donetsk militants participated in the suppression of the "coup d'etat" in the LPR . “Moreover, then it was the“ Sparta ”militants - units subordinate (“ head of the DPR ”Alexander Zakharchenko - performed the most dirty work, and this is the arrest of the rebels and the physical liquidation of the leader of the fighters of Tsypkalov , who was in the opposition K (“ Igor’s head of the LPR), ”the activist noted. The obligations undertaken regarding the transfer of the DPR of the LPR of the Coal Market and ... control over the production of liquid-water products in the territory of the LPR.

On Monday, Plotnitsky published a decree on the removal of the “head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR” by Igor Cornet from his post due to the initiation of a criminal case against him.

In the afternoon, the Center for Lugansk was blocked by militants with machine guns and an armored personnel carrier . In particular, they cordoned off the building of the "Ministry of Internal Affairs". It was reported that the cornet and his supporters were barricaded in this building. On the website of the "Department" there was an appeal to Plotnitsky demanding "stop the injury" of the cornet.

Later, the “head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs” said that his “department” has certificates that prove the involvement of the “director of the GRK LPR” Anastasia Shurkaeva and other “officials” to the activities of the Ukrainian special services.

In turn, Plotnitsky confirmed the resignation of the cornet and said that the actions of his supporters "crossed all the boundaries of the permissible."

Meanwhile, late in the evening of RBC handed over that the Kremlin in the conflict of Plotnitsky and Cornet took the side of the latter. At the same time, a source in the presidential administration, close to Vladislav Surkov, assistant to Vladimir Putin, who oversees the DPR and LPR, noted a source of Plotnitsky from the authorities will not yet be removed. Another interlocutor of the publication close to the AP confirmed this information.

The confrontation in Lugansk called the approximate Surkova called the "process of the formation of a model of control management from Moscow." “If Donetsk is quite independent of the Kremlin and, in fact, their relationship can be described as an unobtrusive protectorate, then in the case of Lugansk Moscow decided to adjust certain processes in the republic and increase its influence,” the official explained.