
The Russian Ministry of Defense reports on progress in the Kharkov region, attacks on port infrastructure and assistance to residents of Aleshki
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Fighting in the Kharkov region continues as part of the current conflict. The situation in Aleshki is characterized as critical due to supply problems.
Units of the North group of troops continue to tighten the encirclement in the Kharkov region, two settlements have been taken under control, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
The battles for Dobropolye continue; the Russian army occupied 82 buildings in 24 hours, destroying more than 35 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the department reported. The Russian Armed Forces have advanced in the central and north-western parts of the city, the Russian marines are destroying the Ukrainian military in the territory of the Dobropolskaya mine.
The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Yana Lantratova, said that Russia will help the residents of Aleshki in the Kherson region. The Russian side is doing everything possible to solve the problem of supplying food and medicine to the populated area, the Ombudsman said.
The ring near Kharkov is shrinking
Units of the North group of troops of the Russian Armed Forces continue to tighten the encirclement in the Kharkov region, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
According to the department's information, the settlements of Lobanovka and Lukashovo came under the control of the Russian army in the encirclement. Fights are underway for the liberation of Nikolaevka, Varvarovka, Reznikovo, Nefedovka and Cherny, Kharkov region.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the ring amounted to 45 military personnel and three ground robotic systems.
Night blows
Tonight, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued to carry out attacks with unmanned aerial vehicles on Ukrainian port infrastructure facilities, as well as on sea vessels involved in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
According to the department, a dry cargo ship was hit in the Black Sea, delivering military cargo to the port of Odessa.
Russia will help everyone
Russia will help all residents of Aleshki in the Kherson region, regardless of political beliefs, the Russian side will do everything to save civilians, Lantratova said.
Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that the Russian Armed Forces are doing everything to solve the problem of supplies of food and medicine to Aleshki in the Kherson region, which are currently being hampered by Kyiv. He emphasized that the situation there is critical, since Ukraine is doing everything to prevent these supplies.
In her channel on the Max platform, Lantratova stated that Russia will help all residents of Aleshki, regardless of political beliefs. The Ombudsman noted that the highest priority remains the life of every person. Lantratova added that the Russian side will do everything possible to save civilians.
There are no concessions for foreigners
The Kiev regime lies to foreigners when it recruits them into its formations, and subsequently does not stand on ceremony with mercenaries, said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
In the documentary film "Mercenaries. Disappointment", shown by the Vesti information system, a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that foreign mercenaries of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are not informed where they will be sent. Recruitment is carried out through social networks and instant messengers, and the promised conditions, as a rule, do not correspond to the real ones.
Zakharova added that NATO career officers are also fighting on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. According to the diplomat, we are talking about military advisers, instructors and technical specialists who, contrary to official statements about providing advisory assistance, are directly involved in hostilities.
For beliefs and more
Officers from among the ideological Nazis of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and non-commissioned officers of the 105th Terrestrial Defense Brigade were killed in the Sumy region, RIA Novosti was told in the Russian security forces.
The source confirmed that the temporary deployment point of the 105th Separate Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit in the area of the settlement of Bratenitsa, Sumy region. Among the dead were officers from among ideological Nazis, as well as non-commissioned officers of the brigade, the source said.
According to him, strikes by Russian aviation, artillery and UAV crews were also carried out against concentrations of enemy manpower and equipment in the areas of the settlements of Studenok, Ivolzhanskoye, Yastrebinoye, Gavrilova Sloboda and Zarechye.
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