The Ukrainian coat of arms was removed from the city administration in Berdyansk . File photoMOSCOW, April 19The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed a logistics center in the Lviv region and large batches of foreign weapons that arrived in Ukraine from the United States and European countries, while the Kyiv regime, with the support of the West, is preparing sophisticated provocations. 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 Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of DonbassMarch 12, 14:46The aggravation of the situation in the DPR and LPRMap and the first results of Russia's special operation in UkraineInfographicViewProgress of the operation European countries. In addition, the operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 84 military facilities of Ukraine per day, including the Tochka-U missile warhead repair plant. In the meantime, according to the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, more than 70 foreign ships from 18 states are still blocked in Ukrainian ports.Ukrainian nationalists are holding 6,200 foreigners hostagePreparing for a provocationThe Russian Defense Ministry also reported that the Ukrainian side has not announced a single humanitarian corridor in the Russian Federation out of 10 declared for the current day in the Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporozhye directions. In addition, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Kyiv regime with the support of the West, it is completing the preparation of sophisticated monstrous provocations with numerous victims in the Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Odessa, Sumy and Kharkov regions. To this end, more than 70 mobile groups were formed from among the nationalist battalions on vehicles equipped with mortars (the so-called «wandering mortars»), with the task of shelling Orthodox temples and churches on Easter night (from 23 to 24 April) and then blaming the Russian military. Kyiv plans to attract a large number of Western reporters to film and immediately spin the fakes. The American journalist was amazed at the atrocities of the Armed Forces of UkraineNegotiations between Russia and UkraineAccording to the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, the Ukrainian side does not demonstrate constancy in the agreements reached in the negotiations with the Russian Federation, it changes its position. According to him, the dynamics of progress in the negotiation process between Russia and Ukraine leaves much to be desired.
Papasna residents told how the Ukrainian military fired on their houses
