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In internecine mode
The center of Lugansk was blocked by people in military uniforms with machine guns and armored personnel carrier. It is reported by "GTRK LPR".
People in balaclavas with machine guns cordoned off administrative buildings, in particular the building of the LPR Ministry of Internal Affairs, and blocked the passage and travel along the streets. Also, armed people took control of the building of the concern of broadcasting, radio communications and television and the building of the "Administrative Court of the LPR".
According to the site 0642.ua with reference to the posts of residents of the city in social networks, detached the day before from the post of "internal affairs of the LPR" Igor Cornet with its supporters barricaded in the building that besiege the forces, loyal to the "head of the republic" Igor Plotnitsky.
On the website of the "Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR", an appeal to Plotnitsky with a demand "to stop the grass" of the cornet was published . The document says that it was slandered by people, "who, acting with dirty methods, pursue their, most likely, selfish goals aimed at discrediting the internal affairs bodies and destabilizing the" situation in the LPR.
Later, Cornetsaid that "the Ministry of Internal Affairs is working normally, the personnel of the department continues to fulfill its duties." According to the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, his employees received evidence of involvement in the activities of the Ukrainian special services "Director of the GRK LPR" Anastasia Shurkaeva and other "officials".
In turn, Plotnitsky confirmed the resignation of the cornet and stated that the actions of his supporters "crossed all the boundaries of the permissible." “I want to assure that the situation is under the control of the leadership of the Luhansk People’s Republic and will be completely resolved in the near future. The attempts of people acting under the influence of the illegitimate leadership of the LPR Ministry of Internal Affairs are aimed, first of all, to create social stress,” Plotnitsky emphasized. “Attempts by certain persons are restrained by the cost of destabilizing the situation inside the state, and in the near future they will be completely neutralized.”
On Monday, on the official website of Plotnitsky, his decree on the removal of the cornet from his post was published in connection with the initiation of a criminal case against him.
On August 6, 2016, an attempt was made in Lugansk on Plotnitsky. According to eyewitnesses, a high -explosive explosive device worked during the passage of his car. As a result of the attempt, Plotnitsky received severe injuries.