Russian servicemen liquidate warehouses supplying the AFU grouping near Kiev
The Russian armed forces continue to strike at the military infrastructure of Ukraine. Sea-based Kalibr cruise missiles destroyed ammunition depots from which the Ukrainian group was supplied in the suburbs of Kiev. Russian air defense systems shot down a helicopter that was flying to evacuate the commander of the Azov regiment from Mariupol, the Defense Ministry reported. On Monday, by presidential decree, two marine corps formations received the status of guards. On the same day, Russian investigative authorities began investigating war crimes against Russian prisoners of war. The reason was a video in which nationalists with special cruelty kill a bound man with a knife. The Kremlin called these shots monstrous.
Infrastructure strikes
The troops of Russia and the People's Republics of Donbass continue to advance. On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that Russian units had wedged deep into the defense of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and reached the southern outskirts of Novoselovka.
By Monday, March 28, the forces of the LPR had advanced 5 km, captured the settlements of Ivanovka and Novosadnoye and reached the border of Novolyublino, Terny.
According to the Ministry of Defense, on March 27-28, aviation and air defense systems of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down four Ukrainian Su-24 bombers in the air over the Chernihiv region — two in the Repka area and two in the Gorodnya area. A Ukrainian Su-27 fighter jet was shot down near Kramatorsk.
During the day on March 28, Russian aviation and anti-aircraft weapons shot down three more Ukrainian Air Force planes, the Defense Ministry said: two Su-24s west of the Korosten settlement in the Zhytomyr region and one Su-25 over the Druzhkovka settlement in the Donetsk region.
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"In the region of Mariupol, 5 km from the coastline over the Sea of Azov, a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter was shot down, heading for the emergency evacuation of the commanders of the Azov national battalion who abandoned their subordinates," said the official representative of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov. — In addition, one Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down near the settlement of Chernobayevka.
Ships of the Russian Navy continue to strike with Kalibr cruise missiles at the Ukrainian military infrastructure. So ammunition depots were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Ushomir and Veselovka of the Zhytomyr region. They supplied the Ukrainian group in the suburbs of Kiev.
The New Guard
On Monday, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the assignment of guards names to the 155th separate Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet and the 126th separate coastal Defense Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet - with the wording "for mass heroism and bravery, fortitude and courage shown by the brigade's personnel in combat conditions while protecting the Fatherland and state interests in armed conflicts".
According to military expert Vladislav Shurygin, two new guards brigades performed the most difficult tasks and achieved high results during a special military operation, and their personnel showed unparalleled heroism and courage.
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— The 126th Coastal Defense Brigade, led by its commander, Colonel Andronik Gasparyan, captured the most important bridge in the Kherson region. And for three days, being surrounded, she defended it," the military expert noted. — The Russian military department has not officially reported about the participation of the 155th Marine Division. But it is known that Marines are used for actions in urban environments. It is the Russian "black berets" that are involved in the liberation of Mariupol. Moreover, even before the start of the special operation, the personnel of the 155th division were actively working out tasks for actions in urban conditions. Moreover, the Pacific Marines not only learned to storm, but also to conduct humanitarian operations in an urbanized area.
Causes and effect
The Kremlin commented on reports of bullying and torture against the Russian military captured by Ukrainian armed formations. Such video footage began to spread in social networks over the weekend. According to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin "certainly saw" this video. "These, as well as other facts, will be checked. You know that our Investigative Committee has dealt with this. Quite monstrous shots. Of course, they need a legal assessment," he stressed.
Earlier, the chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed the Main Investigative Department of the IC to establish all the circumstances of the ill-treatment of prisoners. "Footage has appeared on the Internet showing Ukrainian nationalists treating prisoners extremely cruelly," the ministry said in a statement. — A video distributed on the Internet shows how the captured servicemen were shot in the legs without providing medical assistance. According to some reports, illegal actions took place at one of the bases of Ukrainian nationalists in the Kharkiv region."
Bastrykin instructed the investigators to find out all the circumstances of the incident, "to collect and record evidence and identify all the persons involved in this with a view to subsequently bringing them to the responsibility established by law."
On Monday, the UK reported that the head of the department instructed to investigate, as part of a criminal case, the fact of a brutal beating followed by the murder of a Russian prisoner of war in the entrance of one of the residential buildings on the territory of Ukraine. "The video, which has been distributed on the Internet, captures the process of beating and killing a Russian prisoner of war by a representative of the nationalist detachments of Ukraine, whose hands are tied behind his back. As part of the investigation, all the accomplices of mockery, beatings and brutal murder will be identified in order to bring them to justice later," the Investigative Committee said in a statement.
"These are undisguised war crimes that have no statute of limitations," Vladimir Kornilov, a political commentator at MIA Rossiya Segodnya, told Izvestia. — Of course, we need to look for the perpetrators and bring cases against each of them and find them wherever they are. Wherever they then fled from Ukraine, it is necessary, following the example of Israel, to find war criminals wherever they are. I am generally surprised why Russia has not yet urgently convened the UN Security Council with a demand to investigate Ukraine's war crimes.
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The expert stressed that war crimes are directly related to calls for reprisals from all sides in Ukraine. And we are not talking about isolated cases.
Russian Russian TV presenters called for the murder of Russian children, for the commission of terrorist attacks against Russian women and their children, and for the mutilation of Russian prisoners of war. Everyone who said this is not punished, this is the order of things for today's Ukraine. What the fiends are doing on camera is the consequences of the atmosphere of misanthropy, xenophobia and Russophobia that reigns now in the media and social networks of Ukraine. It is also necessary to pay attention to this. Not only the executioners should be brought to justice, but also those who called," said Voadimir Kornilov.
At the end of February, the representative of the Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov said that captured Russian servicemen were subjected to torture and tortures — the same ones practiced by the German Nazis and their collaborators during the Great Patriotic War. "All faces, voices, phones, their coordinates, IP addresses, as well as correspondence of all Ukrainian Nazis involved in the mockery of our comrades are recorded and identified. This also applies to the leaders of the Kiev regime and their perpetrators, who directly call for bullying of Russian servicemen in violation of the convention on the treatment of prisoners of war. All of you will be found and will inevitably bear severe responsibility," the general warned.
On March 28, the head of the National Defense Management Center, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, spoke about the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.
According to him, over the past day, the Russian Armed Forces, without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities, evacuated 12,825 people to Russia from dangerous areas of Ukraine, Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, including 2,045 children, and in total, 469,683 people have been evacuated to Russia since the beginning of the special military operation, of which 97,345 are children. From Mariupol, without any participation of the Ukrainian side, 105,534 people have already been rescued from the lawlessness organized by the nationalists, including 3,642 people over the past day," Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev said.
He cited data on the recorded crimes of Ukrainian nationalists.
— In the suburbs of Kharkov, militants fired mortars mounted on so-called bandera mobiles at places of mass gathering of civilians (queues at shops, ATMs, food and drinking water distribution points), — said the general. — As a result, three people were killed, more than 10 were injured. The bodies of civilians with traces of brutal torture and carved neo-Nazi symbols and swastikas were found in the basements of buildings in the city of Mariupol, liberated from the nationalists. In addition, civilians rescued from the city confirm the egregious facts of how the neo-Nazis, knowing that there are women with children in the basements, deliberately threw grenades at them. The Kiev authorities once again show their criminal and cynical nature. Terror and genocide against their own people have become the norm for Ukraine.
Secret Cards
On Monday, March 28, the Russian Defense Ministry told about the soldiers and officers who showed courage and dedication in the battles. Lieutenant Vyacheslav Vodiany's platoon was surrounded by superior nationalist forces. Despite the heavy fire, the officer organized the defense and, at the first opportunity, managed to ensure the withdrawal of the unit, remaining to cover his fighters.
— Fighting alone, without cover, he personally destroyed two units of military equipment and up to 10 nationalists, — said the Russian military department. — After waiting for reinforcements, the lieutenant threw back the nationalists — this allowed the column of the motorized rifle brigade to arrive in a given area on time and without losses.
The reconnaissance group of Major Vitaly Siplivy had to confirm the destruction of an anti-aircraft missile battery and a mobile electronic warfare unit in the rear of the AFU. Arriving at the scene, he found two still working radar stations and a communications point, which the scouts immediately attacked and burned.
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A few days later, the group of Major Syplivy seized the permanent deployment point of the nationalist army aviation brigade with a lightning strike. During the inspection, the officer found a map of the brigade commander with secret data — it indicated the locations of the AFU aviation.
"The information obtained by the Russian military made it possible to uncover a number of important enemy objects that were later destroyed," the Russian Defense Ministry noted.
The air defense units under the leadership of Colonel Yevgeny Usa for two hours under the fire of MLRS and mortars repelled the attacks of the APU drones on the airfield. During the battle, the anti-aircraft gunners shot down seven drones, preventing the destruction of the material reserves of the Russian group. In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, Yevgeny Usa's anti-aircraft gunners have destroyed 38 UAVs, including two "Bayraktar TB-2". There are no losses in the colonel's units.
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