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[Regnum] In Ufa, three teenagers were detained who were trying to carry out sabotage, the FSB department in Bashkiria reported on March 3.
It turned out that the teenagers were recruited through Telegram. Through the messenger they entered into correspondence with people who promised money for committing arson at a communication facility. The teenagers received instructions from them. The customers also named mandatory conditions, upon fulfillment of which they were promised a monetary reward.
At the moment when the friends tried to commit arson, they were detained. At the scene, security forces seized the substances and tools necessary to commit the crime. A criminal case was opened against the detainees under the article of attempted sabotage (part 3 of article 30, part 2 of article 281 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
The Kirovsky District Court of Ufa chose a preventive measure in the form of detention for all detainees.
As Regnum reported, on April 2, the FSB informed about the detention at the border, together with customs officers, of a cargo containing explosives. Homemade bombs were hidden in Orthodox icons. The cargo was traveling to Russia from Ukraine through Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.
Good lord — their route map must have twisted like a snake with appendicitis.
Security forces seized 27 ready-to-use improvised explosive devices, as well as 70 kg of explosives.
[LB] The seven hundred and seventieth day of Russia's large-scale armed aggression against our country continues. During the day, 54 combat clashes were recorded.
This is discussed in the evening summary of the General Staff.
In general, the enemy launched five rocket and 50 air strikes , carried out 37 attacks from rocket salvo systems on the positions of our troops and populated areas.
On the Volyn and Poliske directions, the operational situation has not changed significantly. No signs of formation of enemy offensive groups
In the Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions, the enemy maintains a military presence in the border areas, conducts sabotage and intelligence activities, carries out shelling of populated areas from the territory of Russia, increases the density of mine-explosive barriers along the state border of Ukraine. The enemy carried out airstrikes in the areas of Slobozhanske and Vovchansk settlements of the Kharkiv region. About 20 settlements, including Bleshnya of Chernihiv region, were hit by enemy artillery and mortar attacks; Nova Huta, Gavrylova Sloboda, Tovstodubov, Lukashivka, Sumy region; Veterinarne, Strelecha, Krasne, Kharkiv region.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Defense Forces repelled one enemy attack in the area of Andriyivka, Luhansk region. The enemy carried out airstrikes in the areas of Golubivka, Kupyansk, Synkivka, Petropavlivka, Kalynov, and Borova settlements of the Kharkiv region. About 15 settlements came under artillery and mortar fire, including Sinkivka, Stepova Novoselivka, Kotlyarivka of the Kharkiv region.
In the Lyman direction, our soldiers repelled three enemy attacks in the area of Terna settlement of Donetsk region, where the enemy tried to break through the defense of our troops. More than 10 settlements were affected by artillery and mortar shelling, among them Nevske of Luhansk region and Terny, Yampolivka, Torske of Donetsk region.
In the Bakhmut direction, our soldiers repelled 10 attacks in the areas of Belogorivka, Luhansk region; Spirny, Andriyivka, southeast of Vyimka and Klishchiivka of the Donetsk region, where the enemy tried to improve the tactical position. The enemy carried out airstrikes in the areas of Chasiv Yar, Toretsk and Druzhba settlements of the Donetsk region. More than ten settlements came under artillery and mortar fire, including Bohdanivka, Kalynivka, Chasiv Yar of the Donetsk region.
In the Avdiivsk direction, our defenders repelled eight attacks in the areas of Berdychi, Umanske, Yasnobrodivka, Pervomaiske and Nevelske settlements of the Donetsk region, where the enemy tried to knock out our units from the occupied lines. The enemy carried out airstrikes in the Keramik and Semenivka settlements of the Donetsk region. About ten settlements, including Novokalynove, Novobakhmutivka, Semenivka, and Nevelske of the Donetsk region, were hit by artillery and mortar shelling.
In the direction of Novopavlivsk, the Defense Forces continue to hold back the enemy in the areas of settlements of Novomykhailivka and Urozhaine, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried 15 times to break through the defenses of our troops. The enemy also carried out airstrikes in the areas of Krasnohorivka, Vodyane and Vugledar settlements of the Donetsk region. More than ten settlements came under the artillery and mortar fire of the occupiers, including Georgiivka, Paraskoviivka, Kostiantynivka, and Vugledar of the Donetsk region.
During the day, the enemy did not conduct offensive (assault) actions in the Orihiv direction , but carried out airstrikes in the areas of settlements of Staromayorske, Donetsk region; Malynivka, Orykhiv and Robotyne of the Zaporizhzhia region. About 20 settlements, including Poltavka, Malynyvka, Chervone, Biloghirya, Novodanilivka, and Shcherbaki of the Zaporizhzhya region, were hit by artillery and mortar attacks.
In the Kherson direction, the enemy does not give up its intention to knock out our units from the bridgeheads on the left bank of the Dnieper. So, during the day, he carried out four attacks on the positions of our troops. Krynka, Kherson region, was subjected to enemy artillery fire.
During the day, the aviation of the Defense Forces struck 14 areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment and one anti-aircraft missile complex of the enemy.
Units of the missile forces damaged two areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, an artillery system, a radar station, a EW station and one enemy UAV control point.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:57 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he heard a “long and detailed” report from Syrsky today: “Our actions in key areas. Protecting our positions. Strengthening our positions. Our pressure on Russian positions. Our key plans for defense and active actions for the near future time".
The president also emphasized that Ukraine is gradually planning to work with partners in the coming months: “Both May and June should be a time of activity for the sake of Ukraine in order to achieve our goals in this war. We clearly understand what they are preparing for in Russia, what they want, that they will gather soldiers into their army. And we, all of us, our partners, must have a strong response to Russian operations - any Russian operations. We must win this war. This is Ukraine’s historic chance to break Russian revanchism, and we must Take advantage of this chance for the sake of reliable safety for our children."
21:32 A new large-scale Russian offensive is expected in the summer. The authoritative American publication Politico writes, with reference to high-ranking Ukrainian military personnel who served under Zaluzhny’s command, that the military picture looks gloomy. There is a high risk of the front line collapsing where the Russian army launches an offensive. For more details, see the article Shortage of shells .
21:04 Chinese Foreign Ministry Speaker Wang Wenbin said that there should be no winners and losers in the Russian-Ukrainian war: “In a political settlement, there should be no winners and losers, but peace should rule. China will continue to play a constructive role to achieve this goal.” . He also stressed that there is a risk of further aggravation of the “crisis”, so efforts must be made to de-escalate and end the conflict through negotiations.
The diplomat added that Beijing "has not sought and will not seek benefits from the conflict, and other countries should not discredit or attack the normal relations between China and Russia and should not undermine the legitimate rights of China and Chinese companies."
20:53 Ukraine had a whole list of agents who could commit sabotage at Russian refineries, Vadim Skibitsky, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, told The Guardian. “Some were Russians with Ukrainian roots, others were non-ideological Russians, but were recruited in exchange for payment,” he said.
According to Skibitsky, now Ukraine is not able to win an unconditional victory on the battlefield, so Kyiv “has no choice but to start fighting targets deep behind enemy lines, including military infrastructure, command and control centers, as well as industrial industries producing weapons and ammunition."
Forbes writes that the plant producing suicide bombs in Tatarstan could have been hit by a light Cessna type aircraft with remote control.
20:12 The Ministry of Defense has created a new institution - the Central Directorate for the Protection of the Rights of Military Personnel, that is, “in fact, a military ombudsman,” the department reported. “The implementation of this initiative provides for a comprehensive approach to protecting the rights of soldiers and members of their families, including responding to specific complaints, analyzing specific situations, visiting sites of violations, conducting inspections and subsequent measures to restore rights,” said Defense Minister Rustem Umerov.
20:01 Peskov called Zelensky’s statement about a new mobilization in Russia “untrue.”
19:55 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with the newly appointed Prime Minister of Portugal Luis Montenegro. They discussed the progress of implementation of previous defense agreements and instructed teams to begin work on preparing a bilateral security agreement.
19:49 French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu had a conversation with Shoigu, during which he strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Crocus. The head of the French Ministry of Defense said that Paris does not have any information about the connection of the terrorist attack in Crocus with Ukraine, the French department reported.
19:03 GUR representative Andrey Yusov called Russian IPSO reports that Russia was allegedly about to attack Kharkov. According to him, the Defense Forces do not record the formation of enemy strike groups for repeated attacks on Ukraine, and the enemy is trying to sow panic among Ukrainians by spreading information about an attack on Kharkov.
18:58 Stoltenberg said that today members of the North Atlantic Alliance agreed "on further planning to strengthen NATO's role in coordinating assistance and security training." According to the Secretary General, details will be determined over the coming weeks.
18:24 Russia is ready to strike Ukraine at any time with 50 Caliber, the launch vehicles are already loaded, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of the Southern Defense Forces.
17:51 Over the last week, three Russian DRGs tried to enter the Sumy region, but border guards stopped them, said the head of the OBA Vladimir Artyukh. In total, in 2023, 52 sabotage and reconnaissance groups from the Russian Federation were detained on the approaches to Ukraine.
17:45 The Czech Republic has not yet collected the entire amount for the purchase of shells for Ukraine outside the EU, said the country's Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky. According to him, at the moment about 20 countries have raised funds for the purchase of 300 thousand shells. "We need more ammunition for Ukraine because Russia is still capable of producing much, much more than Ukraine can use on the battlefield. Unfortunately, in war, this math matters," Lipavsky said.
17:38 Today the Russians fired at Selidovo, Donetsk region, with five missiles, first S-300, said the head of the OBA Vadim Filashkin. As a result of the shelling, seven administrative buildings, 12 multi-storey buildings and eight private residential buildings were damaged. No casualties were reported.
17:33 The head of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, after the drone attack, called on enterprises to defend themselves on their own and not rely on air defense: “We should not expect that missile defense will work, it solves other problems. We must solve it on our own, every enterprise, every municipality, every city. "Due to the fact that yesterday there was Uraza and Orthodox fasting, the Almighty gave us a chance. Everything that we said that there would be problems happened. Wake up, guys, no one will protect us except ourselves."
17:14 NATO wants to increase its coordinating role in supplying weapons to Ukraine and training its soldiers, but Hungary is opposed, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said. According to him, the initiative was supported by 31 of the 32 member countries of the Alliance.
16:59 Austria has allocated 21.5 million euros for the work of Austrian humanitarian organizations in crisis regions, including 2 million euros for projects in Ukraine, the country’s Foreign Ministry reported.
16:17 According to Ukrainian military intelligence, as of March 2024, the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Armed Forces include about 100 Su-35 multirole fighters, more than 100 Su-34 fighter-bombers, as well as seven A- long-range radar detection aircraft 50U. As the Main Intelligence Directorate told ArmyInform, three of the seven A-50U aircraft are being repaired and modernized.
15:46 In Russia, the largest liquefied gas plant, Arctic LNG 2, has stopped operating due to sanctions, writes Reuters. The publication clarified that as a result of the sanctions, the owner company Novatek had a shortage of special LNG tankers.
15:10 Finland has prepared the 23rd aid package for Ukraine in the amount of 188 million euros, President Alexander Stubb said. It will include air defense systems and ammunition for large-caliber artillery.
14:58 Zelensky responded to a UN statement condemning attacks on targets on Russian territory: “It seems to me that in order to ultimately understand how to survive in Kharkov, how people can live without electricity without water, people probably need "to come, look, and then condemn something or not. Russia understands nothing except force."
14:51 Zelensky said that Ukraine does not need to mobilize 500 thousand people. However, he did not name the exact number of Ukrainians who need to be mobilized. The president also said that on June 1, Putin is preparing to mobilize 300 thousand of his military.
14:23 Zelensky signed an Agreement on security cooperation and long-term support with the President of Finland Alexander Stubb. According to the document, Finland will provide long-term military and financial assistance to Ukraine, as well as deepen cooperation in the political, financial, humanitarian and reform spheres, the Ukrainian president said. Finland will also help Ukraine rebuild its energy sector, assess environmental damage, strengthen border and critical infrastructure protection, and treat Ukrainian military personnel.
14:04 One of the topics of the meeting of NATO foreign ministers will be the creation of an Alliance mission in Ukraine, said Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski. According to him, “the idea is to use the capabilities of the Pact to train Ukrainians, use logistics and other common elements.”
13:42 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg commented on the Financial Times information that the Alliance is developing a plan to provide a five-year package of military assistance to Ukraine worth up to $100 billion. According to him, one should not expect a final decision on this proposal in the coming days. At the same time, the Secretary General expressed hope that NATO countries will come to a consensus on this issue closer to the summit. "The reason why we are doing this is the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine. It is serious, we see how Russia is pressing and how they are trying to win this war, just waiting for us to retreat," Stoltenberg said.
13:28 The Wall Street Journal writes that Macron held confidential conversations with Biden and Scholz in February in order to convince them to change the West's strategy towards Russia. In particular, according to the French President, Western countries should take a position of strategic uncertainty in relation to the Russian Federation, which would leave all options on the table, including military ones.
Biden questioned the need for a change in strategy amid concerns it could lead to escalation, the newspaper's sources said. Scholz also opposed the idea, saying it risked dividing allies and making NATO countries party to the conflict.
12:43 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. He thanked for financial support, which has already exceeded $12 billion, and also said that since the beginning of the year, Russia has fired almost a thousand missiles, about 2,800 suicide bombers and almost 7,000 guided bombs into Ukraine. He informed about Ukraine's needs for non-lethal equipment: special equipment for the construction of fortifications, mine clearance and medical evacuation.
12:30 The Latvian government has allocated 5.3 million euros for the restoration of Ukraine in 2024, as well as 4.3 million to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine through the European Peace Fund.
12:07 During UAV strikes on targets in Elabuga and Nizhnekamsk in Tatarstan, no foreign-made weapons were used, said Andrey Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. At the same time, he did not specify what exactly could have hit objects on the territory of the Russian Federation, but noted that the Ukrainian UAV industry is “developing very dynamically.” Yusov also confirmed that one of the attacked enterprises was producing Shaded drones. In addition, according to him, one of the buildings nearby was hit by Russian air defense.
11:53 Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said that traces of the terrorist attack in Crocus “lead to the Ukrainian special services.” At the same time, he added that “everyone is well aware that the Kiev regime is not independent and is completely controlled by the United States.” Patrushev also claims that ISIS “and other terrorist organizations were created by the United States.”
11:44 Countries sympathetic to Russia demand that the European Union abandon plans to confiscate state assets of the Russian Federation, writes Politico. According to the publication's sources, representatives of China, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia are privately urging EU officials to continue resisting pressure from the United States and Great Britain to confiscate more than 200 billion euros of Russian state assets frozen after the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
11:16 On the evening of April 2, the Russians shelled Nikolaevka near Slavyansk, Donetsk region, Radio Liberty reports. Three people were injured, the hotel building where eight volunteers were located was damaged. Russian troops struck with four bombs - gliding ammunition (UMPB D-30 SM), police reported.
11:09 In the morning, Russian troops launched a missile attack on the Krasnopolsk community of the Sumy region, the OVA reported. One person was killed, two were injured, including a four-year-old child. As a result of the impact, the buildings of the store and cultural center were damaged.
10:52 The Guardian writes, citing a senior official of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, that the Crimean bridge will be destroyed in the first half of 2024. The source called a third attack on the bridge and its destruction "inevitable."
10:45 In March alone, Russian troops used more than 400 missiles of various types, more than 600 suicide bombers and more than 3,000 guided bombs against Ukraine, Zelensky said. Russia is hitting the front-line territories and border communities especially brutally. According to the president, “all this will not happen when Ukraine receives reliable air defense systems.”
10:21 Several groups of Ukrainian pilots continue training in allied countries to fly F-16 fighters, and two of them are already honing their skills directly on the planes, said Air Force spokesman Ilya Yevlash. He clarified that these two advanced groups are in Denmark and the USA, another group has moved from Great Britain to France, where pilots are mastering light aircraft. In addition, one group is undergoing ground training in Britain. In addition to pilots, technical personnel undergo training.
09:33 Russia will not be able to capture Kiev, said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken: “This will not happen, this is not happening now. At the beginning of Russian aggression in 2022, we thought that there was such a possibility that Kiev would fall. But thanks to the incredible resistance of the Ukrainian people, as well as thanks to the support of the USA, France and other countries, Putin’s desire to conquer the entire country, erase it from the map, make it part of Russia has not been and will not be realized.” According to Blinken, the United States has already promised Ukraine that Kyiv “will never fall into Putin’s hands.”
08:58 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of April 3:
personnel - about 444,370 (+710) people,
tanks - 7009 (+11),
armored combat vehicles - 13,368 (+18),
artillery systems - 11,142 (+30),
MLRS - 1025 (+2),
air defense systems - 745 (+1),
aircraft - 347 (+0),
helicopters - 325 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 8796 (+17),
cruise missiles - 2059 (+1),
ships/boats - 26 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 14,813 (+30),
special equipment - 1838 (+6).
08:29 The number of deaths as a result of yesterday's Russian strike on the village. Novoosinovo, Kupyansky district, Kharkov region, has grown to two - an 11-year-old child who was wounded in a strike on a private house died in the hospital, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA.
08:17 Over the past 24 hours, 75 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In particular, the enemy tried 24 times to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops in the Novopavlovsk direction - in the Novomikhailovka and Urozhayny districts of the Donetsk region. Another 14 attacks were repulsed in the Avdeevsky direction - in the areas of the settlements of Berdychi, Semenovka, Umanskoye, Pervomaiskoye and Nevelskoye in the Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Defense Forces repelled one attack in the Sinkovka area of the Kharkov region; on Limansky - ten attacks in the Ternov area of the Donetsk region; on Bakhmutskoye - six attacks in the areas of Sporny, Kleshcheevka, Donetsk region; on Orekhovsky - four attacks in the areas of Staromayorskoye, Donetsk region, Rabotino and north-west of Verbovoye, Zaporozhye region; on Kherson - eight attacks on the left bank of the Dnieper.
07:42 According to updated information, as a result of yesterday’s attack on the Dnieper, four educational institutions, nine apartment buildings, and 25 cars were damaged, said the head of the OBA Sergei Lysak. At night, the Russians also dropped ammunition from a UAV in the Mirovskaya community of the Nikopol region, no people were injured.
07:31 Air defense at night destroyed all four attack UAVs of the Shahed-136/131 type, which Russia attacked from Primorsko-Akhtarsk, the Air Force reported. Drones were destroyed in Khmelnitsky, Zhytomyr, Kirovograd and Cherkasy regions. In addition, at night the enemy struck the Donetsk region with three S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles.
05:56 The idea of creating a special tribunal for the crime of Russian aggression and using its frozen assets in favor of Ukraine was supported by 44 states. They signed a corresponding political declaration at the Restoring Justice for Ukraine conference held in The Hague. The signatory countries condemn Russia's ongoing aggression against Ukraine as a flagrant violation of international law and order and recall the UN court's decision of March 16, 2022, by which Russia was obliged to cease hostilities.
The countries also support strengthening joint efforts to ensure proper investigation and accountability for all violations of international law committed during Russia's war against Ukraine, including the crime of aggression.
A little boy lives not far from the frontlines in Ukraine. Whenever he heard our combat helicopters flying near, he would run out and greet them with a Ukrainian flag.
One day, the helicopter pilots landed near him to meet the boy and bring some presents for him and his family.… pic.twitter.com/JfwlNl3l3t
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) April 4, 2024
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[Korrespondent] The defenders repulsed 15 attacks in the Novopavlovsk direction.
During the day, Defense Forces aircraft carried out strikes on 14 areas where the occupiers' personnel were concentrated.
During the day, 54 clashes were recorded at the front. The enemy is actively trying to advance in the Bakhmut, Avdeevsky and Novopavlovsky directions. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced this in an evening report on Wednesday, April 3.
In total, Russian troops carried out five missile and 50 air strikes, and carried out 37 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on positions of Ukrainian troops and populated areas.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Defense Forces repelled one enemy attack in the area of the village of Andreevka, Lugansk region.
In the Liman direction, three Russian attacks were repulsed in the area of the village of Terny, Donetsk region, where the enemy tried to break through the defenses.
In the Bakhmut direction, 10 attacks were repelled in the Belogorivka areas of the Lugansk region; Sporny, Andreevka, southeast of Vyemka and Kleshchievka in the Donetsk region, where the occupiers tried to improve the tactical situation.
In the Avdeevsky direction, defenders repulsed eight attacks in the areas of the settlements of Berdychi, Umanskoye, Yasnobrodovka, Pervomaiskoye and Nevelskoye in the Donetsk region, where the enemy tried to dislodge Ukrainian units from their occupied lines.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the Defense Forces continue to hold back the Russians in the areas of the settlements of Novomikhailovka and Urozhaynoye, where the invaders, with the support of aviation, tried to break through the defense 15 times.
During the day, the enemy did not conduct offensive (assault) operations in the Orekhovsky direction.
In the Kherson direction, the enemy does not abandon his intention to dislodge Ukrainian units from the bridgeheads on the left bank of the Dnieper. So, during the day there were four enemy attacks.
During the day, Defense Forces aviation carried out strikes on 14 areas where personnel, weapons and military equipment were concentrated, and the enemy’s anti-aircraft missile system.
Units of the missile forces inflicted defeat on two areas where personnel, weapons and military equipment were concentrated, an artillery system, a radar station, a radio electronics station and an enemy UAV control point.
Let us remind you that over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces liquidated 710 invaders. Since the start of the full-scale war against Ukraine, the Russian army has lost 444,370 soldiers.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware in the areas of Stroyevka (Kharkov region) and repelled three attacks launched by assault groups of the AFU 60th Mechanised and 95th Air Assault Brigades near Terny (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 30 Ukrainian troops, three motor vehicles, one 155mm U.S.-made M777 howitzer, and two 152mm D-20 howitzers.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and inflicted damage on manpower and hardware of the 24th, 28th, 53rd Mechanised, 5th Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 241st Territorial Defence Brigade near Chasov Yar, Kurdyumovka, and Krasnogorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Ten counter-attacks launched by the AFU's 81st Airmobile, 10th Mountain Assault, 67th, 72nd Mechanised brigades and 4th National Guard Brigade of Ukraine were repelled close to Belogorovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Berestovoye, Krasnoye, Bogdanovka, and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 390 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles (Kozak and MaxPro), as well as 19 motor vehicles.
In the course of counter-battery warfare, the following enemy's military hardware was hit: one U.S.-made 105-mm M119 gun, one 2S1 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and one 100mm MT-12 Rapira anti-tank gun.
In Avdeyevka direction, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line, defeated enemy formations, and repelled nine counter-attack attacks launched by the 25th Airborne, 24th, 47th, 59th Mechanised brigades of the AFU near Pervomayskoye, Kirovo, Vodyanoye, Berdychi, and Tonenkoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 305 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, one U.S.-made M777 howitzer, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one 2S1 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.
In South Donetsk direction, the Vostok Group of Forces' units improved the tactical situation and inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade near Vodyanoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
In addition, one counter-attack launched by an assault detachment of the AFU 58th Motorised Infantry Brigade was repelled near Urozhaynoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 155 Ukrainian troops, three motor vehicles, as well as one 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicle.
In Kherson direction, the units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on the units of the 65th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU and 121st Territorial Defence Brigades close to Novodanilovka, Nesteryanka (Zaporozhye region) and Respublikanets (Kherson region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 35 Ukrainian troops, four motor vehicles, one 155-mm UK-made AS-90 Braveheart self-propelled artillery system, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have been eliminated during the day: one hangar for the production and storage of unmanned aerial vehicles, one armament depot, as well as manpower and military hardware of the AFU in 131 areas.
Air defence systems shot down 164 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles and two U.S.-made JDAM aerial guided bombs.
In total, 581 airplanes and 270 helicopters, 18,538 unmanned aerial vehicles, 495 air defence missile systems, 15,684 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,262 combat vehicles equipped with MRLS, 8,644 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 20,576 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 04/03/2024 to 00:00 04/04/2024.
53 facts of armed attacks by the UFU were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
One civilian was reported killed. Three civilians were also injured.
DAMAGED:
Two residential buildings.
A total of 32 artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction
A total of 21 attacks in the Gorlovka direction
A total of 168 units of various ammunition were fired.
21:30 220mm BM-27 MLRS "Hurricane" destroyed strategically important railway bridge near the city of Kurakhovo
This bridge was an important link in the logistics chain of supplying Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the Donetsk, South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions.
“The division commander set the task to hit the railway bridge by any means, since it is an important strategic node of the enemy. The first two strikes were spotting, and the third hit the railway bridge,” the commander of a platoon of a rocket battalion of a separate guards artillery brigade of the Southern Group of Forces with the call sign “Harness” reported on the result of the combat work.
20:24 Anti-tank crews of the 1st Army Corps destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces tank in the vicinity of Krasnogorovka
19:20 Artillerymen of the “Center” group of troops provided advance of motorized rifles in the Avdeevsky direction
18:12 Sniper of the 42nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the Dnepr group liquidated two Ukrainian Armed Forces snipers in the Rabotino area
17:10 Crews of the 240mm 2S4 “Tulip” mortars of the artillery of the “Vostok” group of forces destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces strongholds in the Novomikhailovka area
17:09 Ukrainian troops again shelled Donetsk and Gorlovka, firing another 20 rounds of 155mm caliber, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.Telegram channel.
16:42 Tankers of the “Center” group of troops ripped off rotation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Avdeevsky direction.
16:40 A resident of the village of Tetkino, Glushkovsky district, injured as a result of shelling, died in the hospital - Governor of the Kursk region Roman Starovoyt
16:00 The main thing from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:
-- The Russian Armed Forces improved the situation along the front line in the Avdeevsky direction, repelled nine counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and the enemy lost up to 305 military personnel.
-- The “South” group occupied more advantageous positions in the Donetsk direction.
-- Russian air defense shot down 164 Ukrainian UAVs in one day, as well as two JDAM guided bombs.
-- The Vostok group in the South Donetsk direction improved the tactical situation and inflicted fire damage on the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Vodyanoye area in the DPR.
-- The Russian Armed Forces in the Kupyansk direction repelled three attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine within 24 hours, the enemy lost up to 30 people.
-- The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 390 people in the Donetsk direction per day, as well as Kazak and MaxPro armored vehicles.
-- The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 155 military personnel and a Grad MLRS vehicle in the South Donetsk direction.
-- Since the beginning of the special operation, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed over 18,500 unmanned aerial vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
-- In the Urozhainy area in the DPR, the Russian military repelled a counterattack by an assault group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
15:21 Ukrainian troops lost a total of up to 945 people in all directions per day, as follows from the report of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
In the Donetsk direction, the Russian military occupied more advantageous positions, and in the Avdeevsk direction they improved the position along the front line.
A Ukrainian hangar for the production of drones was destroyed, 164 drones were shot down in one day.
15:20 The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a hangar for storing drones and a weapons warehouse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
14:29 Personnel destroyed observation post and positions of Ukrainian militants
14:25 On frames, published by Iznanka, yesterday’s destruction of the bridge over the Oskol River near the settlement. Kupyansk-Uzlovoy
The bridge was an important artery for supplying the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area.
13:44 Crews of the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower systems destroyed temporary deployment points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the right bank of the Dnieper
12:46 Statement by the head of the press center of the “West” group
Units of the West group of forces continue to carry out combat missions in the Kupyansk direction.
Two attacks by assault groups of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repelled in the area of ??the village of Terny.
During the counterbattery fight, crews of 152mm 2S5 Msta-S self-propelled howitzers under the command of crew commanders Corporal Oleg Alekseev and Senior Sergeant Mikhail Kiriyenko destroyed an American-made M777 artillery gun and a 152mm D-20 howitzer.
The operator of the Lancet loitering munition destroyed the 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount.
Enemy losses in the Kupyansk direction amounted to up to 20 military personnel, three artillery pieces, three vehicles and a field ammunition depot.
11:45 The Russian Armed Forces advanced in several sections of the Avdeevsky direction at once
Bydata “Come and see,” the Russian army continues to develop its offensive in the Avdeevsky direction.
Thus, we managed to make serious progress in Berdychi. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are gradually withdrawing their units from the populated area and are trying to gain a foothold on new frontiers.
The Russian Armed Forces are also advancing in Semenovka. Russian units managed to gain a foothold on the southern outskirts of the village. The counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repulsed.
In some sectors of the front, the advance of the Russian army reaches several kilometers. The situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the moment is, if not critical, then quite difficult.
Nevertheless, the Ukrainian command continues to transfer reserves, including armored vehicles, to the Avdiivka direction.
11:43 Statement by the head of the press center of the Vostok group
In the South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok group of troops improved the tactical situation and inflicted fire damage on the personnel and equipment of the 58th Motorized Infantry and 1st Tank brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Urozhainy and Makarovka areas. We repelled a counterattack by the assault group of the 128th Territorial Defense Brigade in the Nikolskoye area.
Enemy losses amounted to more than 140 military personnel, two tanks, four vehicles, a 155mm M777 howitzer, a Polish-made 155mm self-propelled artillery mount "Crab" and a 152mm D-20 howitzer.
10:48 Crews of T-80BVM tanks of the Vostok group of troops using direct fire destroyed stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction of the Northern Military District.
10:47 In the Artemovsk direction, Russian air defense forces destroyed the Mi-35 helicopter recently delivered to Ukraine by the Czech Republic, reports a Belarusian security officer.
09:54 Criminal Kyiv regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
-- n.p. Kakhovka four rounds;
-- n.p. Novaya Mayachka two rockets;
-- n.p. Dnepryan four rounds;
-- n.p. Alyosha six rounds;
-- n.p. Sagi three rounds.
As a result of the artillery attack of the settlement. Kakhovka, three civilians were moderately injured.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Proletarka, n.p. Peschanivka, n.p. Aleshki, firing a total of 14 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
09:23 Telegram channel «WarGonzo":
Frontline report for the morning 04/03/2024
– On the Zaporozhye Front along the entire line, there are mainly positional battles. LBS unchanged.
- Donetsk front. In Novomikhailovka, Russian troops bypass the enemy from the southern and northern sides of the settlement, which, if the maneuver is successful, puts the Ukrainian garrison in a very difficult position. Fierce fighting continues in Pervomaisky, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are clinging to every meter, and the Russian Armed Forces are not weakening the onslaught.
In the Tonenkoye area, Russian troops are trying to develop an offensive in the direction of Umansky; the Ukrainian Armed Forces are putting up serious resistance. Heavy fighting continues on the outskirts of Semyonovka and in Berdychi.
– Artemovskoe (Bakhmutskoe) direction. The Russian Armed Forces are getting closer and closer to the outskirts of Chasov Yar. Aviation and artillery are actively operating throughout the city, preparing the ground for a future assault. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are preparing to defend the settlement. In parallel, the RF Armed Forces are trying to reach the approaches to Chasov Yar from Bogdanovka and from the western outskirts of Ivanovsky (Krasny), but such a maneuver will take time.
08:57 Telegram channel «Fisherman":
Chronicle of a special military operation for April 2, 2024
– For the first time since the beginning of the Northern Military District, Ukrainian formations carried out a drone raid on the territory of Tatarstan: the targets of the attack were oil refineries in Yelabuga and Nizhnekamsk, as well as an industrial facility in the special economic zone “Alabuga”.
– At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces launched strikes on targets in the rear areas of the so-called. Ukraine. In particular, explosions occurred in Dnepropetrovsk, and one of the attacks hit a substation in Kirovograd.
– In the Avdeevsky direction, units of the Russian Armed Forces fought along the Durnaya River and gained a foothold on the southern outskirts of Semenovka. They also advanced to Berdychi, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces withdrew part of their forces to Novobakhmutovka.
– In the Artemovsky (Bakhmutsky) direction, Russian troops are advancing on Chasov Yar, the construction of which is several hundred meters away in a straight line. Near Krasny, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted to destroy the bridge using a mined tracked robotic platform.
– In the Ugledar direction there are battles on the first line of dacha development in the Mashinostroitel gardening partnership in the north of Novomikhailovka.
08:10 Official summary Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC:
Nine facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC.
There were no reports of civilian casualties.
Damaged:
Four residential buildings,
One car.
Five attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction.
Four attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Gorlovka direction.
In total, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired 27 units of various ammunition.
Contract soldiers are sent to the front directly after training, so they are expected to be eased into the rigor of heavy combat over a period of two to three weeks. So, yes, they are paid handsomely for their work.
Conscripts, on the other hand, are not sent to the front as fighters.
[Regnum] Since the beginning of 2024, more than 100 thousand people have entered contract service in the Russian Armed Forces. This was reported on April 3 by the press service of the Ministry of Defense.
The department added that in the last week and a half, the number of people wishing to serve under a contract has increased significantly.
“Every day, up to 1,700 people come to contract selection points across the country to enlist in military service,” the department said in a statement on its Telegram channel.
The Ministry of Defense added that in the last ten days alone, about 16 thousand citizens signed contracts to participate in a special military operation.
As Regnum reported, in 2023, 540 thousand military personnel signed a contract with the Russian Armed Forces. As Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said, this made it possible to create two reserve armies and six divisions.
He noted that since the beginning of 2024 alone, as of February 20, about 50 thousand people have entered contract service, and people continue to do so. The minister pointed out that the contract soldiers recruited in 2023 have today already become professional, trained troops and represent a serious force.
According to the Ministry of Defense, from January 1 to December 1, 2023, in the interests of the joint group of troops, more than 452 thousand people were recruited for military service. In total, in 2023, more than 500 thousand people were recruited for these purposes, of which 420 thousand were under contract.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev reported on February 19 that since January 1 of this year, more than 53 thousand people have been recruited to serve in the Russian Armed Forces in the interests of the special operation.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Kristina Ismagilova
[REGNUM] Recently, a video from the so-called Polish Volunteer Corps (Polski Korpus Ochotniczy, PDK) circulated on the Internet. In the video, the militants claim that they are participating in joint attacks on the Russian border with the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK, a terrorist organization banned in Russia).
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[Regnum] The head of the Russian Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu and the Minister of the French Armed Forces Sebastian Lecornu held negotiations at the urgent request of the French side,the Russian defense department reported on April 3 in its Telegram channel.
Lecornu expressed condolences in connection with the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall. At the same time, during the conversation, he tried to convince Shoigu that Kyiv and Western countries were not involved in the attack.
The French minister assured that responsibility for the attack lies with the IS group (a terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation).
As Regnum reported, on March 23, the leader of the French Patriots party, Florian Philippot, called for a full investigation into Kiev’s possible involvement in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall. In addition, he considered it necessary to find out where the billions that Paris sends to the Ukrainian side actually go.
Terrorists attacked Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow on March 22. They carried out the attack before the concert of the Picnic group. According to the latest data, 145 people became victims of the attack. Another 551 people were injured.
The Investigative Committee of Russia informed that four people suspected of committing a terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall were detained in the Bryansk region on the border with Ukraine.
On March 26, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov said that the testimony of those detained in the terrorist attack case confirms the Ukrainian trace. According to the head of the service, the Islamists could not have prepared a terrorist attack on their own; they received help.
Text taken from a dzen.ru post by A. Stepanov
[ColonelCassad] Yesterday there was a shooting at the Viertola school in the Finnish city of Vantaa. One child died and two others were seriously injured. The police detained a suspect in the shooting - he turned out to be a 12-year-old teenager. By the way, he won’t be sent to prison, those are the laws.
I read about this tragic episode in Russian-language Finnish sources and see advice: “In the Union for the Protection of Children named after. Mannerheim says that it is important for adults to remain calm and listen to their children.”
“Mannerheim Child Protection Union”... On the one hand, it is still anecdotal to call such a venerable organization after a man who first married a rich Russian bride because of her fortune. (Their honors are like that). And then he left his wife with two young daughters... By the way, according to one version, this happened because of the not entirely traditional orientation of the tsar and then the white general. The topic is not very well known in our country, and in Finland for a long time it was under an unspoken ban:
“For example, a big scandal was caused by the animated film directed by Katariina Lillqvist, The Ural Butterfly, which appeared in 2008.” The fact is that the director focused on those aspects of the bloody marshal’s life that are not usually discussed out loud, namely: his homosexuality and cruelty during the civil war in Finland in 1918.
Although they knew before that the marshal was bisexual and that he had many lovers in different countries, they started talking about it openly only now. Many attribute Mannerheim’s cruelty to his sexual frustration, because in Lutheran Finland of the last century, the national hero was forced to carefully hide his sexuality.”
The main thing is different. The Union for the Protection of Children still bears the name of the man under whom Finnish children were shot or imprisoned in concentration camps. For example, in 1918, after the white victory in the Finnish Civil War, 2,216 women were held in the concentration camp at Hennale. These were the wives and children of Finnish Red Guards and women who were in auxiliary positions in the Red Guard. Researcher Marja Liukkonen, who studied the history of women and children in Hennale, says that she was surprised by the results of the study, since this topic had been kept silent for a long time in Finland.
To conduct the research, Liukkonen studied many documents. She read hundreds of memoirs of prisoners of war and camp guards. In addition, she studied 26 thousand cards of those arrested, 11 thousand cards of prisoners of war, letters, evidence in court cases about the commission of a state crime, interrogation records, notes in newspapers and reports from church parishes about those killed and missing in action in the civil war.
Liukkonen's research revealed that among the female prisoners in the Hennali camp there were 289 children under 15 years of age. And the youngest girls raped and shot without trial were 14 years old.
There were even babies in the camp who were there with their mothers. Children also died. The memoirs of those who visited the prisoner of war camp say that children's corpses lay in piles in the corridors and attics of the barracks.
White terror is always like this. At least in Russia, at least in “civilized” Finland, at least in less civilized Chile or Indonesia.
“Mannerheim Union for the Protection of Children”... The most amazing thing is that the Finnish liberal “public” (no different from the same in Russia) has the audacity to give moral lectures about the history of a neighboring state...
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[Regnum] Development of the United States Navy's newest Columbia-class nuclear submarine will be delayed by more than a year due to supply disruptions. Reuters reported this on April 2 with reference to representatives of the US Navy.
“Development of the nuclear-capable Columbia-class submarine is 12 to 16 months behind schedule, “based on current performance” by contractors General Dynamics & Huntington,” the story says.
According to the source, the delay in development has forced the US Navy to seriously consider extending the service life of Ohio-class nuclear submarines, but the Navy expects to maintain the Columbia project as a top priority, since it should become the basis for the naval part of the nuclear “triad”.
In addition, development of the Virginia-class submarines, the CVN 80 aircraft carrier, and the first vessel of a new class of frigate warships has been delayed for years due to a lack of skilled labor and design problems.
As Regnum reported, on March 19, the Pentagon reported that the US Navy had ordered the delivery of 17 F/A-18 Hornet carrier-based fighter-bombers from Boeing. The Ministry of Defense estimates that the contract, worth more than $1.1 billion, will be completed by April 2027.
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