February 26 ☑️ Russian Defence Ministry spokesperson: Groupings of troops of #Donetsk and #Luhansk, with the fire support from the Russian Armed Forces, expanded the areas of the breakthrough in the enemy's defence during the day and continue to develop the success of the offensive.

The grouping of troops of the Luhansk People's Republic advanced to a depth of 30 kilometers and captured the settlements of Bakhmutovka and Grechishkino.

Formations and military units of the Donetsk People's Republic, advancing in the direction of Novomayskoye, covered another 6 kilometers. Nationalist battalions, retreating, blow up power substations and bridges across rivers behind them.

The units of the Russian Armed Forces have established full control over the city of Melitopol. Russian servicemen are taking all measures to ensure the safety of civilians and exclude provocations by Ukrainian special services and nationalists.

During the night, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation struck with high-precision long-range weapons using air- and sea-based cruise missiles at the objects of the military infrastructure of Ukraine.

I would like to emphasize once again that the fire is conducted only on the objects of the military infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, excluding damage to residential and social infrastructure.

In total, the Russian Armed Forces hit 821 objects of the military infrastructure of Ukraine.

Among them: 14 military airfields, 19 control points and communication centers, 24 S-300 and Osa anti-aircraft missile systems, 48 radar stations. Downed: 7 combat aircraft, 7 helicopters, 9 unmanned aerial vehicles.

87 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 28 multiple rocket launchers, 118 units of special military vehicles were destroyed.

The forces of the Russian Navy destroyed 8 military boats of the Ukrainian Navy

❗Statement by Russian Defence Ministry

▪ On March 14, at about 11.30 a.m. Moscow time, Tochka-U tactical missile was fired at a residential block of Donetsk city from the territory controlled by the Kiev nationalist regime.

▪ The shelling of the city was carried out from the north-western direction, from the area of Krasnoarmeysk settlement, which is controlled by Ukrainian nationalist units.

▪ As a result of the explosion of a cluster warhead in the center of Donetsk, 20 civilians were killed. Another 28 people, including children, were seriously injured and taken to medical institutions.

▪ The use of such weapons on a town with no armed forces firing positions, i.e. deliberately targeting civilians, is a war crime.

▪ The armament of Tochka-U missile' warhead with cluster ammunition proves that the purpose of the nationalists' strike on the city was to kill as many civilians as possible.

❗I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the decision to use this type of missile weapons is made, at least, by the command of the Ukrainian grouping of troops, after approval by the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kiev.

▪ All this once again confirms the Nazi and anti-human nature of the ruling regime in Ukraine today.

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#Bentley : I came to #Donetsk in 2014 after seeing the war crimes of the American-installed junta, the regime of Kiev, when they burned people to death and beat them to death in #Odessa. When they bombed the Lugansk administration building, killed civilians there

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#Zakharova: After 3️⃣ months of the special military operation in #Ukraine, almost all territory of #Lugansk, a considerable part of #Donetsk, the entire Kherson Region and big parts of the Kharkov and Zaporozhye regions have been liberated ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/5n7xew49

▫️Peaceful life is being restored on the territories freed from the neo-Nazis. People are restoring the economy and industry, building infrastructure, launching enterprises, and opening schools, kindergartens, outpatient clinics and hospitals.

▫️ On May 24, 2022, Russian sappers demined the port of #Mariupol. Specialists from the Black Sea Fleet removed a Ukrainian border patrol ship sunk by the #Azov battalion from the waterway, which allowed five foreign vessels to ship out.

▫️ On May 20, 2,439 Ukrainian nationalists from Azovstal plant laid down arms & were taken prisoner. All of them are in Donetsk. Wounded were put for in-patient treatment into a hospital. The rest are in the pre-trial detention centre. Their crimes will not go unpunished.

▫️ #Russia continues delivery of humanitarian aid to Lugansk, Donetsk & Ukraine’s liberated areas, which have already received almost 22,000 tonnes of it. Every day Russian Defence Ministry announces the opening of safe corridors for safe evacuation of civilians both eastward & westward.

▫️ #US & its NATO allies are doing all they can to drag out the special military operation & make the confrontation as bloody as possible. Over 30 states – mostly the #NATO countries – are supplying #Ukraine with military aid worth tens of billions of USD

▫️ Number of foreign mercenaries in #Ukraine is growing. Eventually, they will return to their countries (if they are lucky) and use the military experience gained at the battle field. This has always been the case.

100 days of #Russia’s special operation is all over the Western media. But, as usual - not a word about sufferings of #Donetsk & #Lugansk people. Meanwhile, it is already 𝐓𝐖𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐘 days of genocide in #Donbass, mercilessly perpetrated by #Kiev regime.

Check out the photographic evidence of the genocide of Donbass’ civilian population collected by Sputnik's photographer Maxim Blinov ➡️ https://sputniknews.com/20220530/genocide-of-donbass-civilian-population-photo-evidence-by-maxim-blinov-1095874656.html

🔥A maternity hospital has been damaged amid massive artillery shelling of #Donetsk by Ukrainian troops on Monday. Learn more ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/tp75pxp9

❗️#UN slams Donetsk maternity hospital shelling as breach of humanitarian law ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/mry2aswv❗️

🕯September 3 marked #Russia’s Day of Solidarity in the Fight Against Terrorism. It was established in memory of the tragic events on September 1, 2004, when 334 people, mostly children, died in a terrorist attack on a school in #Beslan. #WeRemember

Combating the terrorism is one of #Russia’s key priorities. Especially, given the situation when thousands of civilians in the #Donetsk and #Lugansk People’s Republics, including children, had become victims of the barbaric actions led by #Ukraine Defence Ministry’s Intelligence Department and other special services. The Kiev regime call it "controlled terror".

These days, the law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation and the allied forces are making tremendous efforts to protect the civilian population and counter the terrorism.

‼️Children murdered in today's targeted shelling by the #Kiev regime's formations of a bus stop in the #Donetsk city. We demand reaction from the #OSCE leadership. Shameful silencing of UA forces' crimes must stop❗️

#Russia’n Defence Ministry: Today at 04:20 am, the #Kiev regime carried out a terrorist attack on ships of the Black Sea Fleet and civilian ships in #Sevastopol city 🔸Together with that #Ukraine forces continue shelling residential areas of #Donetsk