The main events in the coming days will take place north of Mariupol, experts predict
The Russian Armed Forces continue to strike with precision weapons at Ukrainian military facilities. The hypersonic missile system "Dagger" destroyed the buried command post of the grouping of Ukrainian troops in the Donbass. Air-launched cruise missiles hit the camp of the terrorist group "Right Sector" banned in Russia. The head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin said that the military operation in the DPR will be intensified. According to experts, this indicates that a major offensive can be expected soon.
Accelerating the pace
On April 11, the Russian Armed Forces continued to strike at the military infrastructure and the air defense system of Ukraine using high-precision weapons. For the third time during the military operation, hypersonic air-launched missiles "Dagger" were used.
— On the afternoon of April 11, in the area of the settlement of Chas Yar, Donetsk region, the Dagger aviation missile system destroyed a buried, well—protected command post of the grouping of Ukrainian troops in the Donbass, - said the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, Major General Igor Konashenkov.
On the same day, the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin spoke about the upcoming acceleration of the pace of the offensive in the Donetsk People's Republic.
— Now the operation will be intensified. Because the more we delay, the more civilians simply suffer being held hostage by the situation. We have identified areas where it is necessary to accelerate certain steps," Denis Pushilin said.
The statement about the acceleration of the timing of the operation may indicate that some major offensive will begin, director of the HSE Center for Integrated European and International Studies Vasily Kashin told Izvestia.
— Because with the exception of the sweep of Mariupol and limited progress in some places, for example in the area of Izyum, little happened there, — the expert believes. — Obviously, the transferred troops and new forces that have arrived from Russian territory will soon come into effect. Apparently, the Russian troops and the forces of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics expect that they will be able to accelerate the offensive. Based on what is reported, it can be concluded that the last pockets of defense remained in Mariupol and the situation of the defenders deteriorated sharply. They are experiencing a shortage of ammunition, food and everything else. Apparently, the final is approaching, they do not have the opportunity to escape. But the timing of knocking them out of Azovstal is difficult to predict, taking into account special conditions and an extensive network of underground structures. The main events will take place north of Mariupol in the Donbass. Some major operations will take place there.
The Russian Defense Ministry on Monday announced the defeat on April 10 of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile division delivered to the Kiev regime by one of the European countries. The facility on the southern outskirts of Dnepropetrovsk was shelled by high-precision sea-based Kalibr missiles. The defeat of four launchers was declared.
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The Slovak authorities have not confirmed the information of the Russian side. Prime Minister Eduard Heger said that the S-300 air defense system transferred by the country to Ukraine at the end of last week was not destroyed.
According to the statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the radar of another S-300 anti-aircraft missile system of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the repair base of weapons and military equipment of the Ukrainian air defense forces were hit in the Uspenovka area. It destroyed, among other things, the Buk-M1 and Osa-AKM air defense systems.
— As a result of high-precision strikes in the areas of Vozdvizhenka-2 and Ivanovka settlements of the Donetsk region, nine tanks, five 2S3 Acacia self—propelled artillery units, five BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers and more than 60 nationalists were destroyed, - said Major General Igor Konashenkov.
On the afternoon of April 11, several strikes were carried out by high-precision ground-based missiles in the Popasnyansky district of the Luhansk region. As a result, a battalion command and observation post, three company strongpoints, two company tactical groups of the Ukrainian 24th Mechanized Brigade and territorial Defense brigade, over 50 armored combat vehicles were destroyed near the settlements of Popasnaya, Novozvanivka and Zolotoye.
Air-launched cruise missiles destroyed the camp of the terrorist group "Right Sector" banned in Russia near Novogrodovka, Donetsk region, on the same day. A Tochka-U missile launcher and two multiple launch rocket systems were hit near the town of Selidovo.
Air defense means in the area of Izyum managed to shoot down two Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft and a Su-27 fighter near Sinelnikovo, Dnipropetrovsk region. Also, a Mi-24 attack helicopter was destroyed by concentrated small arms fire near the settlement of Posad-Pokrovskoye in the Kherson region.
According to the Russian military, a total of 130 Ukrainian aircraft, 99 helicopters, 243 anti-aircraft missile systems, 441 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,132 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 241 multiple rocket launchers, 913 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,028 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.
Humanitarian situation
On April 11, Mikhail Mizintsev, the head of the National Defense Management Center (NCSO), spoke about the humanitarian situation in the combat areas. According to him, the Russian military provides humanitarian routes on the Kharkiv and Mariupol directions on a daily basis. Every day from 10 a.m. Moscow time, the Russian side opens humanitarian corridors in the Kharkiv and Mariupol directions.
Over the past day, the Russian military, without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities, evacuated 17,117 people to Russia from the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics and dangerous regions of Ukraine, including 2,560 children. In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 740,219 people have already been evacuated, of which 140,623 are children.
The Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine, in cooperation with federal agencies, continues to record numerous egregious facts of the inhumane attitude of the Kiev authorities to civilians, Mizintsev said and gave examples. In Kharkiv, in the area of the Turboatom plant at school No. 100, militants equipped firing positions and placed MLRS. Territorial defense militants are conducting punitive raids in Slavyansk, the general said: they check local residents for any signs of pro-Russian views. The reason for the detention is the history of calls with Russian numbers found in phones, correspondence in messengers condemning the current regime, subscriptions in social networks to Russian channels and others.
— Detainees are taken away to an unknown destination, subjected to brutal torture, threatened with transfer to the SBU, as well as physical violence against relatives (murder, gang rape of wives and daughters), and also forced to equip strong points and checkpoints. To get rid of these torments, they extort money in the amount of $ 500 to $ 1000. Dozens of detainees home so
and they did not return, nothing is known about their fates to date," Mikhail Mizintsev said.
The head of the NCSO warned about bloody provocations, which, according to him, are being prepared by the Ukrainian authorities under the leadership of the United States and other Western countries.
— New false staged provocations to accuse the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation of allegedly cruel treatment of the population of Ukraine are being prepared by the Kiev regime under the leadership of the special services of Great Britain on the territory of the Sumy region. Representatives of Ukrainian and Western media were invited to the city of Seredina-Buda, Sumy region, which was previously under the control of Russian troops, to conduct video filming of staged plots. At the same time, in order to conceal the provocation and exclude its exposure by real witnesses, a curfew was imposed in the city, and the local population was forcibly evicted from the places of direct filming," Mikhail Mizintsev said.
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According to him, in the village of Nizhnyaya Syrovatka near Sumy, bodies are being dragged into one of the basements of residential buildings, which will be presented as allegedly the next victims of the Russian army.
In addition, the Ukrainian authorities make extensive use of the opportunities of interested countries and non-profit organizations.
— So, the French leadership has sent to Ukraine a group of military personnel and the gendarmerie of France, who together with representatives of the International Commission on Missing Persons (created on the initiative of the United States) will collect information about crimes allegedly committed by Russian servicemen, — said the general.
On Monday, French special operations forces soldiers, along with technical experts from the gendarmerie and the French Interior Ministry, arrived in Ukraine via Germany and Poland along the so-called diplomatic corridor.
— Taking into account the engagement of these "specialists", it is not necessary to count on an impartial investigation. Apparently, the main directions of their activities will be the concealment of numerous war crimes against the population of Ukraine, Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics committed by the Ukrainian authorities over the past eight years, as well as the fabrication of accusations against the Russian Armed Forces," Mizintsev said.
He stressed that the Russian Armed Forces, "unlike the Ukrainian army and nationalist armed formations, treat the local population extremely humanely, providing all kinds of assistance and support to civilians."
Under fire
On April 11, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation told about soldiers and officers who showed courage and dedication during the fighting. The senior officer of the communications department of the military district headquarters, Lieutenant Colonel Anatoly Vanchugov, provides all types of communications of the command post. He had to operate under heavy fire more than once. In one of the settlements, a lieutenant colonel under fire organized the installation of a repeater on the roof of a high-rise building.
In subsequent battles, the main communication system was disabled by mortar fire, which made it difficult to control Russian units.
— Thanks to the skillful and decisive actions of Lieutenant Colonel Vanchugov, communication was organized through reserve channels in the shortest possible time, — the Russian military department said.
During this battle, Anatoly Vanchugov saw two Russian servicemen who had received shrapnel wounds. Despite the shelling, Anatoly pulled them out from under fire and provided first aid.
Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Garanin and his battalion, under heavy fire, restored a strategically important bridge destroyed by Ukrainian formations. The bridge reconnaissance group, led by an officer, discovered and defused two high-explosive mines installed on the approach paths to the destroyed crossing.
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During the restoration of the bridge, a heavy mortar attack was opened on the battalion, one of Andrei Garanin's subordinates received shrapnel wounds.
— Acting decisively, Andrei Garanin took the wounded man out from under fire, gave him first aid and returned back. Despite the continuous fire, the lieutenant colonel did not leave the place of the crossing until the bridge was fully ready," the Defense Ministry noted.
During the night reconnaissance, Captain Alexey Gostyukhin's group discovered the hidden positions of 40 saboteurs, as well as five camouflaged vehicles with roaming mortars. The captain, having crept up to the enemy, correctly calculated the coordinates of the enemy's location and immediately transferred them to the brigade control point.
An artillery strike was carried out on the positions of the neo-Nazi armed formations, as a result of which the enemy was eliminated, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
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