A destroyed Ukrainian tank on the street in the city of Volnovakha, which came under the control of the DPR. Archival photoVOLNOVAKHA, March 21 Shortly before the liberation of Volnovakha in the Donetsk region, a Ukrainian tank opened fire on a residential building, a local resident told RIA Novosti. He was very experienced. You see, he maneuvered everything between the houses. He shoots, shoots and leaves. From there, this is the answer. Then he shoots twice at the positions, say, of the DNR, twice at the center of the city, «said the agency interlocutor.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked Volnovakha, which had been liberated earlier, the DPR reported, according to him, as a result, the tank «covered and the ammunition load exploded» with a retaliatory strike. When asked why the shooting was carried out at the residential sector, the man suggested that the goal was to blame Russia. «To later say that Russia … destroyed the city of Volnovakha,» he said. 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.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, 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 stressed. As of March 18, more than 4,000 military infrastructure facilities were destroyed, as well as more than 180 aircraft and helicopters, over 1,400 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 142 multiple rocket launchers and 184 drones, including the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 Since the beginning of the military special operation in Ukraine on February 24, the Russian Armed Forces have taken control of such large cities as Kherson (regional center), Melitopol, Berdyansk. The main directions of the offensive of the Russian troops in the southeast, together with the units of the DPR, are the largest city of Mariupol in the Sea of u200bu200bAzov and, together with the people's militia of the LPR, Severodonetsk. As a result of the offensive, the Russian group of troops managed to completely cut off Ukraine from the Sea of Azov, as well as connect the territory of the Kherson region controlled by the Russian Armed Forces with the DPR.The testimonies of Volnovakha residents will be attached to the evidence of the crimes of the VSUN in the northern direction by Russian troops partially or completely blockaded Kyiv, Sumy and Chernihiv. In the south-west of Ukraine, hostilities are taking place in the area of Nikolaev, which is blocked from the sea by the forces of the Black Sea Fleet. 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 noted in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, «there will be no mercy for mercenaries, wherever they may be.» 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.
Neo-Nazis from «Azov» destroyed Volnovakha, a resident said
