In the Ivanovo-Frankivsk region, it was possible to destroy combat units for the Tochka-U missile systems
The troops of Russia and the People's Republics of Donbass continue to move forward in different directions. The DPR forces are completing the defeat of the 53rd mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported. Russian units are finishing off disparate groups of the nationalist battalion "Donbass". On March 21, the military department reported on the results of the first combat use of the Kinzhal hypersonic complex. In Mariupol, the Russian Armed Forces continue to evacuate civilians from dangerous areas.
The offensive continues
By March 21, units of the Russian armed forces had completely taken control of the settlement of Sladkoe. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, they are now destroying disparate groups of the nationalist battalion "Donbass".
The troops of the Donetsk People's Republic are completing the defeat of the 53rd mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and are advancing towards the settlement of Novomikhailovka.
- In total, up to 50 militants, three tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles, two field artillery guns and four all-terrain vehicles were destroyed in this area overnight, - the Russian Defense Ministry listed. In addition, the DPR units are fighting with the forces of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and are completing the capture of the Verkhnetoretskoye settlement.
The Russian military took control of the sunken AFU command post in Nikolaevka, a suburb of Kiev. The Ukrainian military, who served there, voluntarily surrendered. Half of the prisoners, of which there were 61 people, are senior officers.
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On the night of March 21, high-precision air-launched cruise missiles struck the training center for foreign mercenaries and nationalist formations at the Novaya Lyubomirka combined arms training ground in the Rivne region, as a result, more than 80 "soldiers of fortune" and Ukrainian nationalists were destroyed, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The same type of missiles destroyed an ammunition depot and the headquarters of a mechanized brigade near the village of Selets.
A group of "night hunters" consisting of Ka-52 and Mi-28n helicopters destroyed eight tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles and three armored personnel carriers.
According to the Russian military, 44 military facilities of Ukraine were hit by tactical and army aviation overnight. Among them are four command posts, two MLRS fire installations in the areas of the settlements of Nalivaykovka and Zolochevka, six Buk M-1 air defense systems, three Msta-B guns in the Vyshgorod area, four ammunition depots and also 23 places of accumulation of military equipment.
Air defense systems shot down two Ukrainian drones over the settlements of Chernobayevka and Tsirkuny.
Hypersonic strike
The Russian military has analyzed the effectiveness of hypersonic weapons, which were first used in combat conditions last week.
— The Russian Defense Ministry has analyzed the results of the destruction of Ukrainian military infrastructure facilities by Dagger aviation missile systems with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles. The underground protected storages of Ukrainian aviation weapons and combat units for the Tochka-U missile systems located in the Delyatin settlement of the Ivano-Frankivsk region, as well as large fuel depots in the Konstantinovka settlement of the Mykolaiv region, were destroyed— - said the official representative of the department, Major General Igor Konashenkov.
He drew attention to the fact that the launch of the "Dagger" was made from a distance of more than a thousand kilometers. The flight time was less than 10 minutes.
—Due to hypersonic speed and ultra-high kinetic energy, the warhead of the Dagger missile complex destroyed a protected underground arsenal located in a mountainous area, built in Soviet times to store special ammunition and missiles," the general said.
The destruction by a hypersonic missile of the Dagger complex of a large fuel depot in the village of Konstantinovka was due to its invisibility and invulnerability to any means of air and missile defense of the enemy.
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The representative of the Ministry of Defense noted that the Dagger complex is used with a conventional warhead, although specialists are well aware of the capabilities of the weapon both in range and type of charge.
According to military historian Dmitry Boltenkov, the Dagger hypersonic complex was used by the Russian military in Ukraine because of its unique combat capabilities. This was a test for the latest missile system.
— In both cases, the purpose of the "Dagger" was complex and well-protected shelters, - the expert drew attention. — In Ivano-Frankivsk, a Russian hypersonic missile hit an ammunition depot that was located in a former nuclear weapons storage facility. This is not just a bunker — it is a complex engineering structure, which, moreover, was located deep in the mountain. Therefore, the experience of combat use for such a purpose of the "Dagger" is invaluable for the Russian military. The target was eliminated, and our hypersonic missile showed unique characteristics.
Without the participation of the Ukrainian side
On March 21, the head of the National Defense Management Center of Russia, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, spoke about the desperate situation of civilians in Mariupol, on the streets of which there are battles with militants of the extremist Azov regiment banned in Russia. To date, about 130 thousand people are in mortal danger and in conditions of a severe humanitarian catastrophe.
"By blocking the corridors for civilians to exit, the nationalists deprive them of the opportunity to escape, leaving them in the combat zone as a "human shield," General Mizintsev said. — And everyone who tries to evacuate on their own is being bullied everywhere or viciously shot in the back. At the same time, against the background of Kiev's official statement about the refusal to carry out a humanitarian operation, and the militants to lay down their arms, they hypocritically instructed nationalist battalions to leave the city in small groups under the guise of civilians, dressed in civilian clothes, using any opportunities, including along humanitarian corridors. And the bandits immediately began to carry out this order.
The head of the NCSO said that on March 20, the Azov terrorists killed the parents of two minor children.
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- Hiding behind the same children, in a car belonging to the family, they tried to leave along the humanitarian corridor to Zaporozhye, but they were identified and promptly detained by Russian servicemen, and the children were rescued and the necessary assistance is being provided to them, - Mizintsev added.
According to the Russian military, more than 62 thousand people have left Mariupol and are now in complete safety in Russia. They openly talk about the crimes of the Nazis, all the evidence is carefully recorded.
"All of them will be investigated in detail, the perpetrators will be found and will certainly be punished for the atrocities they committed," Colonel—General Mizintsev said. Similar crimes occur on a regular basis in other localities: in Odessa and Chernihiv, urgent discharge of patients, including those in serious condition, is being carried out from medical institutions for the equipment of strong points and firing points in these buildings by nationalists, as well as warehouses of military equipment and ammunition; in the Mykolaiv region, in almost all major in populated areas, territorial defense militants conduct a detour of households and force all males to enroll in their ranks, for refusal they are shot on the spot.
Russia continues, without the participation of the Ukrainian side, measures to evacuate civilians and foreign citizens to safe areas, the general assured.
Dangerous chemistry
On March 21, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on the provocation of Ukrainian nationalists in the city of Sumy. The head of the local regional administration said earlier that there was an ammonia leak at the Sumyhimprom plant. There is no threat to the residents of Sumy, since the air masses were moving "not towards the city."
— Let me remind you that back on March 19, we officially warned about the mining of this enterprise by Ukrainian nationalists to commit a provocation in order to accuse Russia of allegedly using "chemical weapons," Igor Konashenkov said. — I want to emphasize once again: the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation did not plan and do not carry out any attacks on Ukrainian facilities for the storage or production of toxic substances. The coordinates of all such objects and data on the toxic substances stored there on the territory of Ukraine were obtained by us during the seizure of the combat documentation of the 4th Brigade of the Ukrainian National Guard. The Kiev nationalist regime is directly responsible for any possible incidents with Ukrainian storage facilities of toxic substances.
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The Russian Defense Ministry says that Ukrainian nationalists continue to deploy military equipment in residential areas and hide behind the local population. General Konashenkov cited as an example the case of a shopping center in the Vinogradar district on the outskirts of Kiev. Photos of the destroyed shopping center building appeared in Ukrainian sources with an explanation that the Russian army is shooting at civilian buildings. According to the representative of the Ministry of Defense, this shopping center did not work, its areas were used for storing ammunition, and the parking lot was used to accommodate military equipment. In particular, the MLRS installations that fired from this area.
- The coordinates of the position of Ukrainian multiple rocket launchers were confirmed by Russian intelligence through several channels, as well as the location of a warehouse with reactive ammunition was revealed, — the department stressed.
Objective control video footage clearly shows how a Ukrainian multiple rocket launcher enters a shopping center on the outskirts of Kiev to hide after another volley and reloading of missiles.
High-precision long-range weapons destroyed a battery of Ukrainian multiple rocket launchers and a storage base for their ammunition in a non-functioning shopping center on the night of March 21, Igor Konashenkov said.
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