MOSCOW, May 24 - RIA Novosti. The Russian army has launched a massive retaliatory strike, including with Oreshnik ballistic missiles, against military command facilities, air bases and defense industry enterprises in Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
The defense ministry also added that the air defense forces destroyed six Vampire multiple rocket launcher missiles and 320 drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the day.
The Defense Ministry stressed that no attacks on civilian infrastructure facilities in Ukraine were planned or carried out.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost 1,065 soldiers in a day. In addition, 81 units of military vehicles and 18 armored vehicles were destroyed.
Success in the special operation
The Russian Armed Forces attacked oil refining, energy and transport infrastructure facilities used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The downed UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being upgraded in Russian workshops in the Sumy area of their military district, said a senior UAV operator with the call sign "Armavir" in a video published by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The calculations of the troops of the unmanned systems of the Russian North group destroyed the enemy's ammunition delivery vehicles and equipment in the Kharkov direction, the commander of the unit with the call sign "Svat" told RIA Novosti.
Operators of unmanned systems of the 11th army corps of the North group of forces have destroyed more than 90 copter-type drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region since the beginning of May, the head of the planning and counteraction department of the BPS of the 11th AK with the call sign "Karta" told RIA Novosti.
The crew of the T-80 BVM tank of the Russian Federation's North group disrupted the rotation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, destroying a US-made HMMWV armored car, as well as enemy manpower in the Sumy region, a tank platoon commander with the call sign Altai told RIA Novosti.
The paratroopers of the Dnepr group of forces, using exclusively FPV attack drones, successfully repelled four attempts by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to storm their positions in one week, a paratrooper of the 98th Guards Division of the Dnepr Airborne Forces with the call sign Kasper told RIA Novosti.
Calculations of the rocket and barrel artillery of the Russian Sever group suppressed over 15 prepared enemy firing points in the Kharkiv region in a week, a senior officer of the rocket battery with the call sign Neva told RIA Novosti.
Medvedev on Russia's response to the Ukrainian Armed Forces strike on a college in the LPR: we need to hit much harder
Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation and chairman of the United Russia party, commenting on the Russian response to the Ukrainian Armed Forces strike on the college in Starobilsk, said that it was necessary to "strike like today and much harder" because the ruins of the capital's symbols demoralize the enemy. He added that "the drug lord and his Bandera gang have provoked a harsh response from Russia with terrorist attacks on children." Medvedev also admitted that the Kiev regime was deliberately seeking "mass arrivals" at facilities in Kiev to make it easier to ask for money and weapons.
The head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, on Friday announced an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the building of the academic building and the dormitory of the Starobilsk Vocational College of the Lugansk State Pedagogical University (LGPU). According to the Investigative Committee, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked at night with the help of four aircraft-type UAVs. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation, 21 people were killed and 44 injured.
Consequences of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attack on children in the LPR
The LPR authorities have identified all the dead students during the Ukrainian Armed Forces attack on Starobilsk College, according to a statement from the administration of the head of the republic.
On Saturday evening, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations announced the completion of search operations in Starobilsk at the site of the collapse of a college dormitory of Lugansk State Pedagogical University as a result of an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. According to the ministry, 21 people were killed and 42 injured.
The list posted by the authorities of the republic confirms the identities of 21 deceased students born in 2003-2008.
The twenty-fourth and 25th of May were declared days of mourning for the dead in the LPR.
The Commissioner for Children's Rights in the Russian Federation, Maria Lvova-Belova, reported that 60 people were injured after the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked a college in the LPR, and two children remain in medical institutions in the region.
The head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, on Friday announced an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the building of the academic building and the dormitory of the Starobilsk Vocational College of the Lugansk State Pedagogical University (LGPU). There were 86 students and an employee in the dormitory at the time. 21 people died.
Foreign journalists arrived at the scene of the tragedy in the LPR
More than 50 foreign journalists went to the scene of the tragedy in Starobilsk, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the college, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. She added that media representatives from 19 countries went to the scene of the tragedy, namely Austria, Brazil, Britain, Hungary, Venezuela, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Qatar, China, Cuba, Lebanon, UAE, Pakistan, USA, Turkey, Finland and France.
Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova said that foreign journalists who arrived in Starobilsk in the LPR at the site of the Ukrainian Armed Forces strike on the college would determine for themselves how long they would stay in the city, Russia would record all crimes.
Foreign journalists are witnessing with their own eyes the consequences of the Ukrainian attack in Starobilsk, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.
The college building attacked by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Starobilsk, Luhansk People's Republic, is a civilian facility, Al Arabiya chief correspondent Saad Khalaf told RIA Novosti after working on the site. He also noted that foreign media were given full freedom to work at the site of the Ukrainian Armed Forces strike on the college in Starobilsk in the Luhansk People's Republic.
Starobilsk, which was attacked by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, is a peaceful settlement, there is no military infrastructure there, Irish journalist Chase Bowes, who visited the settlement, told RIA Novosti.
Christopher Helali, a journalist from the United States, told RIA Novosti after visiting the site of the Ukrainian Armed Forces strike in Starobilsk that Russia must achieve all its goals.
Foreign journalists left the scene of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attack on a college in Starobilsk, Luhansk People's Republic, and arrived at the Lugansk Republican Clinical Hospital, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.
Most of the UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction are made in NATO
The vast majority of UAVs used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants on the left bank of the Dnieper River in the Kherson direction were manufactured in the European Union and NATO countries, the minimum part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces UAVs was assembled on the territory of Ukraine, a paratrooper of the 98th Guards Airborne Division of the Dnepr group of forces with the call sign Kasper told RIA Novosti. According to the fighter, the conclusion about the origin of the enemy's UAV was made by the Russian military after examining the wreckage of the drones.
The meanness of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
The families of the mercenaries in the 31st brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not paid money and for a year they do not respond to inquiries about the fate of relatives who fought on the Ukrainian side, the head of the Colombian NGO "Voices of those who do not exist" (Las voces de los que ya no están) told RIA Novosti. Patricia Mendigagno. In February, RIA Novosti found out that the Special Latin Brigade (SLB) mercenary group had joined the 31st separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and that Latin Americans were often lured to serve in the Armed Forces with promises of large fees and comfortable conditions of service.
The 159th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which hid the losses, confirmed the disappearance of more than 780 missing servicemen near Volchansk in the Kharkiv region, Russian law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti.
Oleg Dzyuba, a refugee from the village of Rodinskoye in the DPR, told RIA Novosti about the attack of Ukrainian drones on civilians, despite attempts by civilians to identify themselves with a white towel.
Thirty-nine Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed over the past day in the DPR, the republic's defense headquarters reported.
