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Russian Defense Ministry
Russian Defense Ministry briefing (30.03.2022)
️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, developing the offensive, broke through the enemy's well-fortified defenses, crossed the Shaitanka River and are fighting with units of the 53rd mechanized brigade on the outskirts of the village of Velikaya Novoselka.
The settlement of Zolotaya Niva is being cleared of nationalist formations. The advance was 8 kilometers. In this area, up to 50 personnel, three tanks, 5 infantry fighting vehicles, and 8 vehicles for various purposes were destroyed.
️Subdivisions of the Luhansk People's Republic continue the offensive on Severodonetsk. Battles are underway to clear the village of Zhitlovka.
Ukrainian nationalist battalions in the Severodonetsk direction are suffering serious losses. As a result of the violation of transport communications, the possibility of replenishing them is blocked. During the day, more than 50 nationalists, 2 tanks, 3 infantry fighting vehicles and two field warehouses of rocket and artillery weapons were destroyed in this direction.
️In the Kiev and Chernihiv directions, a planned regrouping of troops is taking place.
At the first stage of the special military operation conducted by the Russian Armed Forces in the territory of Donbass and Ukraine, it was planned to force the enemy to concentrate their forces, funds, resources and military equipment to hold large settlements in these areas, including Kiev. To bind them on the battlefield and without storming these cities, in order to avoid losses among the civilian population, to inflict such a defeat on the armed formations of the Kiev regime that would not allow it to use these forces in the main direction of operations of our Armed Forces – in the Donbas.
️ All these goals were met.
At the same time The Russian army also solved another task, namely - in the absence of an influx of fresh enemy forces from the western and central regions of Ukraine, through professional military operations, using the absolute superiority in the air that it had won, and also using modern high-precision weapons of destruction-to create all the necessary conditions for the final stage of the operation to liberate the
Народных For this purpose, constant, targeted fire damage was carried out and continues. created by the Kiev regime for eight years of long-term defensive fortifications. All the main lines of communication, supply and reserve approach have been taken under full control. Systems destroyedAir defense of Ukraine, airfield infrastructure, the largest military depots, training centers and concentrations of mercenaries. Work on them continues.
Thus, all the main tasks of the Russian Armed Forces in the Kiev and Chernihiv directions have been completed.
️The goal of regrouping the Russian Armed Forces is to step up actions in priority areas and, above all, complete the operation for the complete liberation of Donbass.
Air defense systems of the Russian aerospace forces destroyed 2 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Balakleya andVerkhnetoretskoe.
During the day, 69 military facilities of Ukraine were hit by operational-tactical and unmanned aircraft. Among them: three command posts, two installations of multiple launch rocket systems, eight warehouses of ammunition and rocket and artillery weapons and 52 strong points and areas of concentration of military equipment.
Since the beginning of the special military operation, 124 aircraft and 77 helicopters, 214 anti-aircraft missile systems, 323 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,767 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 186 multiple launch rocket systems, 741 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 1,657 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
The Russian Defense Ministry continues to study documents received from employees of Ukrainian biological laboratories about secret US military biological activities in Ukraine.
As a result of the study of new materials by Russian experts of the radiation, chemical and biological protection forces, specific officials who took part in the creation of components of biological weapons were identified.
️These are heads of departments and employees of the US Department of Defense, as well as its main contractor companies. As the ongoing journalistic investigations in the Western press show, these campaigns were directly linked to the son of the current US president, Hunter Biden.
️As a result of a special military operation, research was stopped in a number of Ukrainian biolabs, where work was carried out on strains of pathogens of particularly dangerous infections by order of the Pentagon.
At the same time, a number of documents obtained from these laboratories indicate that the identity of the subjects was concealed and there was a serious risk to their lives.
️Of particular interest are documents showing the Kiev regime's plans to use unmanned aerial vehicles capable of carrying and spraying deadly substances.
️The revealed facts prove that the Kiev regime seriously considered the possibility of using biological weapons against the population of Donbass and the Russian Federation.
️We will tell you more about the results of the analysis of the received documents and the revealed facts in the near future at a special briefing.