Tag: Russian military action

Fierce street clashes continue in the city of Mariupol. On April 6, the DPR advanced in the area of the city seaport. The first footage from Russian drones from the area was shared online. This is a clear sign that the area was almost secured.

According to the DPR People’s Militia, about three thousand soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including nationalist regiments, are currently besieged in Mariupol. The center of the city and almost all administrative buildings have come under the control of Russian and DPR troops.

According to the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov , as of 5 April 2022, 1981 armored combat vehicles including tanks, were knocked out of the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

According to the official representative of the military department, Igor Konashenkov, on the evening of Monday, April 4, a long-range sea-based cruise missile attack destroyed the Training Center for Ukrainian Special Operations Forces near the city of Ochakiv, which was used for basing foreign mercenaries.

The official representative of the Russian defense department, Igor Konashenkov, announced that he had received information that the Ukrainian special services were preparing new provocations in the cities abandoned by Russian troops.

On 4 April, 267 soldiers and officers of the 503rd Independent Battalion of the Ukrainian Navy surrendered in Mariupol. This was the entire surviving personnel of the unit.

Russian troops left Bucha as part of a regrouping a few days before the “victims of the occupation” were discovered. The Armed Forces of Ukraine did not immediately realize this and for almost three more days they covered the city with artillery, under which civilians could well have fallen. Forensics can show that the civilian deaths occurred after the Russian forces left.

About 90,000 members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be involved in the battle of the “Donbass arc.” It is believed that Russia will pull no less troops. We can safely say that, taking into account reserves and logistics services, approximately 200 thousand soldiers will converge on the eastern front.

According to the publication 'Resident', the Russian troops intend to surround the thousands of Kiev's APU groups in one boiler, and then break it into several small ones in order to clear it out in stages.

The decision to reduce its military operations in the Kiev region was presented by the Russian side as a concession to Kiev aimed at the facilitation of the negotiation process between the two sides, and also due to the difficulties faced by Russian forces near the Ukrainian capital.

Last week, the Russian military estimated that about 6,600 foreign “mercenaries and terrorists” remain active in Ukraine, and that their ranks are dwindling.

NovorusInform.Ru: The founder of Tsargrad TV, Konstantin Malofeev, said that Google paid a penalty for failure to comply with a court decision to restore a YouTube account. According to Malofeev, the funds received will be used to support the Russian military special operation in Ukraine.

VT Report from the Scene: 3 helicopters were shot down but Russians chose to let the 4th land where Azov commanders who were hiding in an underground bunker popped out and loaded themselves on, thinking they were going to be brought to Biden's side.

SF: The Russian military is preparing to further develop its offensive in the Donbass region after reducing military operations on the fronts of Kyiv and Chernihiv in northern Ukraine.

New footage of the work of the Chechen security forces in Mariupol.

“Ukrainian negotiators have essentially agreed to Russia’s principal security demands of rejecting NATO membership and regarding the presence of foreign military bases on its territory,” the Kremlin’s chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky told Sputnik News.

Russian Officer on situation near Energodar.

Konashenkov noted that among the targets hit were 8 strongholds and areas of concentration of military equipment, two warehouses with fuel and lubricants, a warehouse with ammunition and rocket and artillery weapons, two MLRS, and one Buk-M1 and one S-300.

Detailed updates. Russian forces are regrouping in order to intensify military actions in priority areas and to completely liberate Donbas.

Overnight, Russian aviation destroyed 68 Ukrainian military targets. Air-launched cruise missiles eliminated a large Ukrainian army’s fuel base in the Rovno region.

Russian air defenses demonstrated a unique coherence in Ukraine, repelling perhaps one of the most massive attacks involving unmanned aerial vehicles in history.

Fighting continued to the northeast and east of Kiev. There is no encirclement of Russian forces near Kiev.

Institute for War Research: remaining cities of Donbass will be taken in the coming days.

Some of the foreign fighters in Ukraine thought that they were going to another war orchestrated by Washington, where they would be paid a lot of money for minimal risk. Instead, they found themselves in a full-scale bloody war against one of the strongest armies in the world, fighting for their lives under the constant aviation and artillery strikes of superior enemy forces.

The Russian Defense Ministry published a video of its Ka-52 ‘Alligator’ attack helicopters hitting and eliminating a convoy of the Ukrainian military’s armored vehicles.