The Russian military yesterday published a new video shot in the Kherson region. It depicts Ukrainian armored vehicles - tanks, armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles. And both in a battered form, and absolutely unharmed. The fact is that Ukrainian servicemen and nationalists threw a lot of weapons and equipment, retreating in a hurry. Our military found a lot of armored vehicles in the courtyards of residential buildings and near social institutions.
"They hide behind people and they do it consciously. Recently, the Ukrainian press began to print that President Zelensky allegedly does not know about this, and he did not give such an order, but gave the general staff of the armed forces of Ukraine to save personnel and equipment. Shifting responsibility from one to another leads to the fact that people here suffer, die, get shrapnel wounds, the infrastructure is broken," said Eduard Basurin, a representative of the People's Militia of the DPR.
Meanwhile, yesterday, the massive bombing of the settlements of the DPR and LPR continued almost all day from positions still occupied by the Ukrainian military and nationalists. "Ukrainian troops fired 20 Grad rockets at the Golmovsky settlement at 15.50," the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire regime reported.
The fire and rescue unit was shelled in the city of Yasinovataya, the glazing was damaged. This was announced by the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR Alexey Kostrubitsky.
In the LPR, in just half an hour, Ukrainian troops shelled the settlements of Frunze, Donetsk and Kalinovo, firing 11 shells and 8 mines.
As for the next important goal of the military - the city of Mariupol, fierce battles are still going on for it. But everyone recognizes that in a few days the city will be liberated from the nationalists. "Our units managed to make serious progress last night," the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin said yesterday, adding that they had previously managed to block all supplies of weapons and equipment to Mariupol for the needs of the enemy.
"An unprecedented humanitarian operation is being carried out in Mariupol," Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said yesterday. According to him, the rescued civilians confirm all previously made conclusions about the nightmare and horrors taking place in the city. "The Ukrainian nationalists mined all the approaches to the city, blew up bridges. Residential quarters, kindergartens, schools, medical institutions and other civilian infrastructure facilities have been turned into strong points, ammunition depots, firing points, and Mariupol residents themselves are being used as a "human shield"," General Mizintsev said.
The head of the NCSO noted that the inhumanity of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis is fully confirmed by the so-called concept of "festung" - "fortress cities" borrowed by them from the fascists. "The special tragedy of such tactics lies in the fact that the Nazis created all conditions for the mass destruction of civilians in order not to leave a single living witness to their monstrous crimes," the military commander said.
Ivan Petrov
