Cannot rm -rf using variable

Question

I am trying to write a BASH script which will delete recursively all files in a directory.

When I write in console rm -rf /home/dir/dir/*, it works great, but I can't do it using variables.

VAR="/home/dir/dir"
rm -rf "$VAR"/*

This code didn't work for me.

Update.
It is really really weird. I've tried to delete quotation marks, but it doesn't work.

Here is my whole file:

#### VARIABLES

LOGS_PATH="~/Документы/tellbot_work/tellbot-autotest/mega-test/Reports/Mega\ test"

#### End of variables


#### FUNCTIONS

delete_logs()
{
    rm -rf $LOGS_PATH/*
    echo "Logs from $LOGS_PATH were deleted"

}

#### End of functions

#### MAIN

delete_logs

#### End of main

In output it shows a right path to the files...

Answer 1

You can avoid the tilde-problem by just using variable home. So just write

LOGS_PATH="${HOME}/Документы/tellbot_work/tellbot-autotest/mega-test/Reports/Mega test" 

instead of

LOGS_PATH="~/Документы/tellbot_work/tellbot-autotest/mega-test/Reports/Mega test" 

and the command

rm -rf "$LOGS_PATH"/*

Should be usable again.