They made all the raspberries

"The state security authorities of the DPR and the LPR" detained a sabotage group that prepared an attempt on the "first persons of the republics". This was stated by the representative of the "press service of the Ministry of State Security of the DPR", Interfax reports .

"The power structures of the DPR and the LPR held a joint special operation on the territory of the Lugansk Republic to detain the sabotage group operating on the instructions of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, which was detained by more than 10 people. This group acted on the territory of both republics and is suspected of preparing attempts for a number of first persons of the DPR and LPR," said a representative of the Donetsk security forces.

According to him, this is not the only sabotage group created by the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. Earlier in the LPR, persons allegedly involved in the murders and assassination were detained. The second part of the same group was detained in Donetsk after an attempt to attempt on the "Deputy Prime Minister of the DPR" Alexander Timofeev. “In this regard, it was decided to conduct a joint special operation to neutralize the second group of saboteurs operating in the republics. Operational -search measures aimed at establishing all persons included in the group,” said the representative of the State Security of the DPR.

On Friday in Lugansk, the number of military equipment has significantly decreased, reports Ligabusinessinform. The militants maintain a cordon only near the captured objects of the regional television channel. A separatist television and radio broadcasting does not work since Tuesday. "Nothing works from local television and radio. We are in isolation, they only show Russian television channels," a resident of Lugansk told the publication.

Universities, schools and hospitals in Lugansk work as usual. Meanwhile, doctors are forbidden to leave the city. “Yes, we were forbidden, I could not leave even for a good reason. When they are allowed, I don’t know. Much depends on what will happen here,” said the doctor from Lugansk.

The Kremlin still refuses to comment on what is happening in Lugansk, including the flight to Russia of the “head of the LPR” Igor Plotnitsky. “The arrival of Plotnitsky to Moscow is not a question that the presidential administration is engaged in,” said Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. “As for the Minsk agreements, the position that has been repeatedly declared by the president (Vladimir), remains unchanged - there is no alternative to the Minsk agreements, Russia retains its commitment to the signature that the president has been put under these agreements. Putin ".

On Monday, Plotnitsky removed from the post of "Minister of Internal Affairs of the LPR" Igor Cornet. However, he turned out to be resigned. On Tuesday, the center of Lugansk was blocked by militants with machine guns and armored personnel carrier .

In the evening, there were reports that a large column of the DPR armored vehicles invaded Lugansk. It was noted that in its composition were militants of the formation "Vityaz", obeying the "head of the DPR" Alexander Zakharchenko.

The unnamed Kremlin official at the same time reported to RBC that Moscow took the side of the latter in the conflict of Plotnitsky and the cornet, but does not yet intend to remove the “head of the LPR”. The confrontation that began was characterized as "the process of formation of the control control model by 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 interlocutor of the publication explained.

However, officially in the Kremlin this information was refuted, saying that "events in Lugansk are the internal affair of the LPR and no one from Lugansk" to the Kremlin "turned to the Kremlin."

On Tuesday and Wednesday, Plotnitsky spoke several times with the demands to "bring public order and security in the city." He noticed that his security forces "underestimated the number and composition of offenses or, one might say, crimes committed by the former Minister of Internal Affairs." “To go to such an adventure as an attempt by a coup and seizure of power is someone hiding (this) is much more,” said Plotnitsky.

However, on Thursday, Plotnitsky fled to Russia. According to Novaya Gazeta, a number of people left Lugansk, including the “Head of the Administration of the Head of the LPR” Irina Teitzman and “Director of the LPR GTRK” Anastasia Shurkaeva. In the evening, the arrival of Plotnitsky in Moscow was confirmed by the writer Zakhar Prilepin. “Plotnitsky flew to Moscow from Rostov on a regular flight. That's just flew. The economy class, a calm person without security. In general, one,” Prilepin wrote. “In Sheremetyevo, two waiting for his operatives followed, young, cheerful, Moscow. This is how history looks ordinary and unpretentious. With themselves, a small bag on his shoulder and a jacket in the Czech. new life ".