Destroyed house near Azovstal plant in MariupolMOSCOW, Apr 17On the 53rd day of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense proposed to organize the exit of Ukrainian militants and foreign mercenaries from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, but it did not take place. Artillery shelling continued in other cities of the DPR, there were victims. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, an ammunition production plant in the Kiev region was destroyed by high-precision air-launched missiles. Guided by purely humane principles, the Russian Armed Forces offered the militants of the nationalist battalions and foreign mercenaries from 06:00 Moscow time on April 17 to stop any hostilities and lay down their arms. All those who laid down their arms were guaranteed the preservation of life. It was assumed that from 6.00 to 13.00 Moscow time all Ukrainian armed units and foreign mercenaries, without exception, would leave Azovstal, without any weapons and ammunition. jpg» />Western society is being prepared for a third world warAccording to the Ministry of Defense, up to 400 foreign mercenaries are now surrounded on the territory of the Azovstal enterprise as part of the Ukrainian group. Most of them are citizens of European countries, as well as Canada. However, in the afternoon it became known that the Kyiv nationalist regime forbade negotiations on surrender, ordering the Azov militants (against whom a criminal case was opened in Russia) to shoot anyone who wanted to lay down their arms on the spot among Ukrainian military personnel and foreign mercenaries. The way out of the militants from the encirclement was disrupted. As a RIA Novosti correspondent reported, on Sunday afternoon the fighting on the territory of the Azovstal and Ilyich plants continued. The evacuation of civilians from Mariupol 160 people, including 24 children, were reported by the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR. Also, at the request of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, a special operation was carried out in the course of offensive operations to liberate Mariupol in the Primorsky district to free the hostages held by the Nazis in a Turkish mosque. The mosque was released, 29 militants were killed, including foreign mercenaries. The hostages, citizens of one of the CIS countries, were released and taken to a safe place.Ukraine's main dream will come true: the West will take care of it, but Bulgaria is not yet so proactive. On Wednesday, the People's Militia of the DPR reported that the crew members of the Tsarevna cargo ship evacuated from the port of Mariupol, 13 of whom are citizens of Bulgaria and one of Ukraine, arrived in Donetsk. The authorities of the republic provided them with all the necessary support, placed them in a hotel and provided them with food. The DPR Foreign Ministry notified the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry and the Bulgarian Embassy in Ukraine of its readiness to send Bulgarian sailors evacuated from Mariupol home, but has not yet received a response, DPR Foreign Minister Natalya Nikonorova said. Foreign mercenaries in Ukraine At a briefing on Sunday, the Ministry of Defense released general statistics on foreign mercenaries who came to fight on the side of Kyiv. According to the agency, since the beginning of the special operation, Kyiv has attracted 6,824 foreign mercenaries from 63 states. The most numerous group arrived from Poland — 1,717 people. About one and a half thousand mercenaries arrived from the USA, Canada, and also Romania. From the UK and Georgia — up to 300 people. 193 people arrived from Turkish-controlled areas of the SAR. The Russian military destroyed 1,035 foreign mercenaries in Ukraine, another 912 mercenaries refused to participate in the battles and fled, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Today, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, there are 4,877 foreign mercenaries in the ranks of Ukrainian militants.Ukraine was supposed to rally the «free world», but something went wrongThe situation in the DonbassThe number of shelling of settlements of the LPR by Ukrainian troops is not decreasing, said the head of the republic Leonid Pasechnik. the territory of settlements adjacent to us, such as Pervomaisk, Kirovsk, the village of Donetsk, then, in principle, the number of shelling does not decrease,» Pasechnik said on the air of the Rossiya 1 TV channel. So, the city of Pervomaisk was again shelled by Ukrainian militants. Two women, born in 1961 and 1958, were injured. As for the DPR, Ukrainian security forces fired 331 shells at the cities of the republic in a day, 24 houses were completely or partially destroyed, said the representative of the People's Militia Eduard Basurin. «These were mainly (caliber) 152 , 122 (millimeters) and Grad. The territories of Donetsk, Yasinovataya, Gorlovka, Panteleimonovka were shelled. More than 24 houses were partially or completely destroyed,» Basurin said on the Rossiya 1 TV channel.
The West is ready to believe in Moscow's incredibly cunning plan The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that during the day, high-precision air-launched missiles in the area of u200bu200bthe settlements of Barvenkovo and Dobropolye destroyed fuel and lubricants and ammunition storage facilities. According to the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, Russian missile troops and artillery defeated four command posts, four artillery batteries, two warehouses of fuel and lubricants, and more than 100 other Ukrainian facilities. In addition, in the area of Fedorovka settlements and Factories in the Kharkiv region, two Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft were shot down in the air. their breakthrough attempt on the night of April 11-12. This was established during the inspection of the site of the clash. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. 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 Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and On March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
