The French, and extra typically the Westerners, solely know the battle in Ukraine from Kiev’s perspective. It’s not uninteresting to research the information offered by Moscow. In fact, this ought to be accomplished with all due warning.
The Ministry of Protection of the Russian Federation maintains an open supply website in English, notably detailed. You possibly can learn, every single day, a briefing of the Russian Ministry of Protection and the small print of army operations in Ukraine.
Multiple million tons of ammunition destroyed
Thus, as of March 25, 2022, the briefing of the Chief of the Primary Operational Directorate of the Armed Forces Employees reads : ” The general public and particular person specialists are questioning what we’re doing within the space of blocked Ukrainian cities.
These actions are carried out with the goal of inflicting such injury to army infrastructure, gear, personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the outcomes of which permit not solely to shackle their forces and don’t give them the chance to strengthen their grouping within the Donbass, but in addition won’t enable them to take action till the Russian military utterly liberates the territories of the DPR and LPR.
Initially, we didn’t plan to storm them with the intention to forestall destruction and decrease losses amongst personnel and civilians.
And though we don’t rule out such a chance, nonetheless, as particular person teams full their duties, and they’re being solved efficiently, our forces and means will focus on the primary factor – the entire liberation of Donbass.
Important territories of the Lugansk and Donetsk folks’s republics have additionally been liberated. The folks’s militia has taken management of 276 settlements that have been beforehand below the management of the Ukrainian military and the nationwide battalions.
Demilitarization of Ukraine is achieved each by high-precision strikes on army infrastructure services, areas of formations and army models, airfields, management factors, arsenals and warehouses of weapons and army gear, and by the actions of troops to defeat opposing enemy grouppings.
At present, the Ukrainian air forces and the air defence system have been nearly utterly destroyed. The naval forces of the nation ceased to exist.
16 important army airfields have been defeated, from which fight sorties of the AFU aviation have been carried out. 39 storage bases and arsenals have been destroyed, which contained as much as 70% of all shares of army gear, materiel and gas, in addition to greater than 1 million 54 thousand tons of ammunition.
All 24 formations of the Land Forces that existed earlier than the beginning of the operation suffered vital losses. Ukraine has no organized reserves left.
Losses are replenished on the expense of mobilized individuals and personnel of the territorial defence forces who would not have the mandatory coaching, which will increase the chance of huge losses.
On the time of the beginning of the particular army operation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, along with the Nationwide Guard, numbered 260 thousand 200 servicemen. In the course of the month of hostilities, their losses amounted to about 30 thousand folks, together with greater than 14 thousand – irretrievable and about 16 thousand – sanitary.
Of the two,416 tanks and different armored combating automobiles that have been in fight on February 24, 1,587 models have been destroyed; 636 models out of 1,509 discipline artillery weapons and mortars; 163 out of 535 MLRS; 112 out of 152 plane, 75 out of 149 helicopters; 36 Bayraktar TB2 UAVs – 35;
180 out of 148 S-300 and Buk M1 air defence programs; 300 out of 117 radars for varied functions.
The AFU proceed to make use of high-powered weapons indiscriminately in opposition to cities in Donbass. An instance of that is the strikes by the Tochka-U missile system on the civilian inhabitants of Donetsk and Makeyevka.
On this regard, they’re the first targets.
As of at this time, 7 Tochka-U launchers have been destroyed, and 85% of missiles are in arsenals and within the air. This considerably restricted Ukraine’s capabilities for his or her fight use.
Westerners’ weapons
Because the starting of hostilities, the Western international locations have provided the Kiev regime with 109 discipline artillery weapons, 3,800 anti-tank weapons, together with Javelin, Milan, Konkurs, NLAW ATGM, M-72, Panzerfaust-3, 897 Stinger and Igla MANPADS.
We contemplate it an unlimited mistake for Western international locations to produce weapons to Kiev. This delays the battle, will increase the variety of victims and won’t be able to affect the result of the operation.
The actual goal of such provides is to not help Ukraine, however to pull it right into a long-term army battle “to the final Ukrainian.”
We’re carefully monitoring the statements of the army and political management of particular person international locations about their intention to produce plane and air defence programs to Ukraine. In case of implementation– we won’t depart it with out consideration.
We additionally hear assurances from NATO leaders about non-interference within the battle. On the identical time, some member states of the North Atlantic Alliance suggest to shut the airspace over Ukraine. I want to draw your consideration to the truth that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will instantly reply accordingly to such makes an attempt.
With a purpose to forestall the restoration of weapons and army gear of the AFU which have acquired fight injury, the Russian Armed Forces are disabling restore enterprises, arsenals, storage bases, logistics warehouses with high-precision weapons.
In the intervening time, 30 key enterprises of the military-industrial advanced have been hit by cruise missiles X-101, Kalibr, Iskander, and the Kinzhal aviation advanced, which carried out repairs of 68% of weapons and gear disabled throughout fight operations.
Russian fashionable weaponry has confirmed to be extremely correct, dependable and able to operational use.
I want to emphasize that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation don’t strike at civilian infrastructure services, together with the destruction of bridges throughout rivers.
127 bridges have been destroyed within the space of army operations. All of them have been blown up by Ukrainian nationalists with the intention to deter the advance of our troops.
One other instance of recklessness is the mining of approaches to the ports of Odessa, Ochakov, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny, the place over 400 anchor mines of out of date sorts are put in.
At the least 10 mines have damaged anchor and are drifting within the western a part of the Black Sea, which poses an actual risk to warships and civilian vessels.”
“Neo-Nazis” and mercenaries
The mainstay of the Kiev regime are nationalist formations equivalent to Azov, Aidar, Proper Sector and others acknowledged in Russia as terrorist organizations. In Mariupol alone, they embody greater than 7 thousand militants who’re combating below the guise of civilians, utilizing them as a “human protect”.
The militants of the Azov battalion drive girls and youngsters out of the basements, threatening them with weapons, and ship them in the direction of the advancing models of the DPR with the intention to hinder the advance of the folks’s militia. This has turn into a typical follow for them.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, quite the opposite, search to keep away from pointless losses. Earlier than the beginning of the offensive, the AFU models are invited to go away the fight space and transfer together with gear and weapons to the purpose of everlasting deployment. Not to withstand when the offensive begins and those that lay down their arms are assured security.
Civilians caught in a battle zone are all the time suggested to remain of their properties.
Units of the Russian Armed Forces along with the Folks’s Militia of the Donetsk Folks’s Republic are conducting an offensive to liberate settlements to the west of Donetsk.
Sadly, there are casualties amongst our comrades-in-arms throughout the particular army operation. As of at this time, 1,351 servicemen have been killed and three,825 wounded.
All household help options will probably be taken over by the state, elevating youngsters as much as greater training, full compensation of loans, housing options.
We obtain a lot of appeals from Russian residents wishing to participate within the particular army operation to liberate Ukraine from Nazism.
As well as, greater than 23,000 foreigners from 37 international locations have expressed their willingness to struggle on the facet of the folks’s republics. We provided the management of the LPR and DPR to simply accept this help, however they mentioned they might defend their land themselves.
They’ve sufficient energy and assets.”
