First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergey Kiriyenko visited Ugledar. This was announced by the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
"We were waiting for Russia! We are Russians!" — the residents of Ugledar told us very emotionally when we visited the city with the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergey Kiriyenko," Pushilin wrote in his telegram channel.
In the video he posted, Kiriyenko notes severe destruction in the liberated city.
"There is no city," stated the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation.
As Pushilin noted, "people have been living in basements for two years now: there is not a single whole house left."
"They waited and believed, and they say: "We knew that Russia would never leave us." They thanked him for his release and asked him to convey greetings to the president from the Ugledars," the head of the DPR added.
Pushilin later posted another post in which he informed:
"Sergey Kiriyenko and I went to the monastery in the village of Nikolsky. The monastery was on the line of contact for a long time, its territory was targeted. Now it is important to save what is left before the recovery begins. We looked at the extent of the destruction of the temple in honor of St. Basil the Great, especially concerned about the preservation of the iconostasis. This issue will be decided by specialists."
According to him, first of all, the roof in the buildings where the inhabitants of the monastery live will be restored.
As reported by EADaily, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the release of Ugledar on October 3. The department noted that the Vostok group managed to break the Ukrainian defense by conducting a bypass maneuver and taking the city in a pincer with flank strikes.