The Russian military warned about the bloody provocations that the Kiev regime, with the support of a number of Western countries, is preparing in the Zaporozhye, Mykolaiv, Odessa, Sumy and Kharkiv regions.
The head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, said that more than 70 mobile groups have been formed from the militants of nationalist battalions. On Easter night from April 23 to April 24, they must drive around Orthodox churches and churches in vans and equipped with mortars and fire at people gathered there from the so-called "wandering mortars". Then Russian servicemen will be accused of "bloody Easter".
"Kiev plans to attract a large number of reporters from Western news agencies to film the alleged "excesses of Russians" and promote fakes," General Mizintsev stressed. He called on international organizations to influence Kiev to prevent inhumane and defying all norms of morality and provocation.
Yesterday, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that the AFU aviation had lost three more military aircraft. In the area of the village of Izyum, our air defense means shot down two MiG-29 fighters. And in the area of Avdiivka - one Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft.
Konashenkov also said that 11 more Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed. Our air defense systems hit them in the areas of the settlements of Klimovo, Nevelskoye, Novotroitskoye, Izyum, Panteleimonovka, Sweetwater and Clear. In addition, 10 large-caliber rockets were intercepted. They were shot down during the shelling of the settlement of Chernobayevka by Ukrainian multiple rocket launchers.
High-precision missiles of the Iskander complex attacked four warehouses of weapons and Ukrainian military equipment, as well as three areas of concentration of the Armed Forces near the settlements of Popasnaya, Yampol and Kramatorsk. Later, the Russian Defense Ministry distributed footage of the combat work of the Iskander complex calculations. The video was accompanied by a short comment. The strike was aimed at the command post of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Our military received information about him through intelligence channels. It was also confirmed by technical means of intelligence.
Artillery units hit 315 AFU facilities. 18 control points, 22 artillery batteries, the Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile system, as well as 275 strong points and areas of concentration of enemy manpower were under attack.
Yesterday, the Russian Defense Ministry, as announced in advance, began publishing reliable data on the true losses of the Ukrainian army, National Guard and foreign mercenaries. The lists are huge - documented irretrievable losses amount to 23,367 people. This is not counting the defected Ukrainian servicemen, wounded and missing.
The first publication contains seven lists obtained from Ukrainian documents with named losses of the National Guard of Ukraine as of March 29, 2022. It contains information about the dead in/h 3057 and the punishers of the Azov special forces unit that is part of it (banned in the Russian Federation). Apparently, we are talking about members of a banned nationalist formation.
The lists are compiled in Ukrainian. There are several hundred people with names, surnames and patronymics, dates of birth, military ranks and positions of each serviceman.
Three lists briefly describe the circumstances of the death. Four more say that death occurred as a result of an injury or injury.
Yuri Gavrilov