Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of the Roscosmos State Corporation. File photoMOSCOW, March 16Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said on his Telegram channel that the only way to help the Russian army now is to clean out the «fifth column».
& #34; The only way we can help our belligerent army now is to clean out the fifth column. And this is a task — perhaps even more important than the speed of advancement of our army", Rogozin wrote.
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized.Rogozin responded in verse to Mask, who challenged Putin to a duel. As of March 15, more than 4 thousand military infrastructure facilities were destroyed, as well as more than 100 aircraft, over 1.3 thousand tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 127 multiple launch rocket systems and 156 drones, in including the Turkish Bayraktar TB2. The offensive is going on in several directions, Kyiv is blocked from the west, the RF Armed Forces have achieved air supremacy over the whole of Ukraine. The territory around the Chernobyl (mothballed) and Zaporozhye (operating) nuclear power plants was taken under control. Eight years later, the North Crimean Canal was unblocked, and work is underway to restore water supply to the Crimea. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, as of March 2, 498 Russian soldiers were killed and 1,597 wounded during the operation. Among the Ukrainian side, according to the Russian military department, the losses are many times higher: more than 2,870 killed and about 3,700 wounded. Foreign mercenaries fighting for Ukraine are also liquidated: according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, up to 180 foreign «Soldier of Fortune» As the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation noted, «there will be no mercy for mercenaries, wherever they are.»Rogozin spoke about plans to create a military-applied orbital station. These statistics take into account, among other things, losses in the territories of the DPR and LPR, which, according to UNHCHR estimates, account for 26 dead and 130 injured. not included in these statistics. In this context, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasyl Nebenzya noted that US Deputy Secretary General Rosemary DiCarlo, losing sight of this information, “obviously took a side in this conflict.” Against the backdrop of hostilities in a large number of cities and villages of Ukraine, a humanitarian catastrophe is emerging. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation lays responsibility for this on the Kiev authorities, who refuse to coordinate the work of humanitarian corridors, as well as local nationalists, in some cases, according to the military department, holding civilians as human shields.
Greed will force Western brands to return to Russia, Rogozin believes