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 start the offensive in all directions in accordance with the plan of the operation.”, declared the spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashénkov, at a press conference.
The soldier recalled that the day before, “after the declarations of the Kiev regime on its willingness to dialogue, combat actions in the main directions of the operation were stopped”, but now, the operation has resumed.
Konashenkov highlighted the advance of the Donetsk and Lugansk separatist militias, who took new towns 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 took the villages of Schastie and Muratovo”he reported, noting that the Donetsk militias advanced by about 10 kilometers and seized Starognatovka, Otkiabrskaya and Pavlopol.
“The nationalist battalions use the so-called ‘bander-mobiles’, off-road vehicles with high-caliber machine guns or mortars,” he said, 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 civil ships.
“The purpose of this attack was, first of all, revenge on the Ukrainian military who surrendered in order to accuse the Russian Army of murdering prisoners of war,” he said, noting that six Ukrainian speedboats were sunk during the clash.
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 probable that the US drones helped the Ukrainian boats to correct fire against the ships of the Black Sea Fleet”, reported.
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