The Russian Defense Ministry today ordered the Army to launch an offensive in all directions after accusing Kiev of refusing to sit at the negotiating table with the Kremlin.
“After the Ukrainian side rejected the process of talks, today all units were given the order to launch an offensive in all directions in correspondence with the plan of operation”, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told a news conference.
The soldier recalled that the day before, “after the declarations of the Kiev regime about its willingness to dialoguecombat actions in the main directions of the operation were stopped”, but now the offensive has resumed.
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Konashenkov highlighted the advance in eastern Ukraine of the Donetsk and Lugansk separatist militiaswhich, he said, took new villages with the help of the Russian Army in the direction of Rubézhnoye.
“Today the forces of the Lugansk People’s Republic advanced to a depth of 46 kilometers and they took the villages of Schastie and Muratovo”, he reported, noting that the Donetsk militias in turn advanced about 10 kilometers and seized Starognátovka, Otkiabrskaya and Pavlopol.
“The nationalist battalions use the so-called ‘bander-mobiles’, off-road vehicles with high caliber machine guns or mortars”, he pointed out, recalling that this type of transport was widely used by “international terrorists in Syria”.
He also referred to clashes in the Black Sea, reporting that the day before, during the evacuation of 82 Ukrainian border guards who “voluntarily laid down their arms”, Russian ships were attacked by 16 Ukrainian Navy boats, which he accused of taking cover with civilian ships.
“The purpose of this attack was, first of all, a revenge on the Ukrainian military who surrendered, in order to accuse the Russian Army of murdering prisoners of war,” he said, noting that during the confrontation six Ukrainian speedboats were sunk.
The Russian military pointed out that during the clashes in the area there were several US RQ-4 and MQ-9A drones.
“It is highly U.S. drones likely to help Ukrainian boats correct fire against the ships of the Black Sea Fleet,” he said. (I)
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