- Ukraine’s defense ministry says Russian security forces have arrested a pro-Russian separatist leader in the eastern region.
- The Ukrainian government has announced that Russia’s Federal Security Service has arrested Igor Alexandrovich Kornet.
- According to him, the arrest is part of a “cleansing” of the leadership of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic.
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Ukraine’s defense ministry said on Wednesday that Russia’s internal security forces had arrested a pro-Russian separatist leader in Ukraine’s eastern region as a result of its failed invasion of the Eastern European country.
Ukrainian intelligence said in a statement that Russia’s Federal Security Service had arrested “Interior Minister Major General” Igor Alexandrovich Kornet of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic. [LPR] in the pro-Moscow region of Donbass in Ukraine, citing information received from him.
Cornet, 49, is said to have been detained in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on Ukraine’s eastern border, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
Ukrainian intelligence said the arrest was part of a “cleansing” of the Luhansk People’s Republic’s leadership, which served as evidence of Moscow’s inability to meet the Luhansk People’s Republic’s current leaders’ goals in waging war against Ukraine. “
Insider could not verify for himself whether Cornet had been detained.
The arrest, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said, “was met with a negative reaction” from the breakaway state of “the power structure and political leadership of the Luhansk People’s Republic, which see it as the beginning of a change in the organization of power within the quasi-state.”
The government agency added that Russia was trying to mobilize more troops in eastern Ukraine.
“The mobilization of personnel is to quickly compensate for the losses suffered by units of the Second Army Corps of the occupying forces of the Russian Federation, and to continue hostilities against Ukraine,” said the Ukrainian government.
Russia recently shifted the focus of its invasion of Ukraine to the eastern region after Russian troops failed to capture the Ukrainian capital Kyiv after weeks of prolonged shelling.
“Another stage of this operation [in eastern Ukraine] “It is beginning and I am sure that this will be a very important moment in this whole special operation,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with India Today on Tuesday, according to the state news agency TASS.
Translations by Nikita Angarski and Alexander Vinogradov.
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