270 LPR students return home under demobilization decree - Pasechnik

More than 270 students of the Lugansk People’s Republic are back home following the discharge from military service under the demobilization decree, LPR Acting Head Leonid Pasechnik said.

 

“I've repeatedly said that the presence of students on frontlines was a very painful issue for the Republic,” Pasechnik wrote on Telegram. “Thanks to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision, the process of demobilization is in full swing as over 270 students have returned home.”

 

He reminded that earlier in the day he had signed a decree on the demobilization of full-time and extramural postgraduate students.

 

“I believe that our young people have to progress, study and show initiative for developing the state; it is a fundamental vector of the Lugansk People’s Republic and the whole Russian Federation. Contracts will be made with those who decide to continue serving the Motherland and defending its borders, and academic leave will be provided to them for the whole period of contract service,” Pasechnik said.

 

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered to demobilize the students of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics and return them to their places of study. Pasechnik signed the student demobilization decree after the LPR militia worked out the discharge procedure. Demobilized LPR students will enjoy the status of war veteran and receive state decorations, LPR military commissar Andrey Gubanov said.

 

Students in vocational and higher education who were called up for military service will be demobilized by the end of this month, the LPR Education and Science Ministry said.

 

On February 24, the Russian president announced a special military operation to protect Donbass residents from Ukrainian aggression. Prior to that, LPR and DPR Heads Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin asked the Russian leader to provide military assistance. On July 3, the LPR militia and Russian armed forces fully liberated the LPR territory from Ukrainian armed formations.

 

The Ukrainian government launched the so-called anti-terrorist operation against Donbass in April 2014.  The peace talks that began soon thereafter failed to reach tangible results due to Kiev’s position to settle the conflict by force.

 

The Lugansk People’s Republic became a part of Russia on September 30, 2022 after the unification referendum.*i*ie