Military pilots in the cockpit of the Mi-8AMTSh «Terminator» transport and combat helicopter of the Russian Aerospace Forces. File photoMOSCOW, June 2During the Russian special operation in Ukraine on June 2, Russian aircraft hit 21 concentrations of manpower and military equipment, and Russian sappers since the beginning of the special operation have neutralized more than 2.6 thousand hectares in the DPR and LPR. In addition, the UN proposed a mechanism for the export of grain from the ports of Ukraine . A center for interaction between Russia and Ukraine on the withdrawal of ships with grain is planned to be created in Istanbul. The course of the operation Over the day, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Federation inflicted more than 850 strikes on the positions of Ukrainian forces, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said on Thursday. Over the past day, Russian air defense systems shot down seven Ukrainian drones, and Russian fighter jets shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft in the Mykolaiv region. «Azov» (against whose fighters a criminal case has been initiated in the Russian Federation) in the Kharkiv region, Konashenkov added.13:53InfographicMap of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine as of 02.06.2022InfographicViewAccording to him, Russian aviation destroyed about 240 Ukrainian nationalists and almost 40 pieces of equipment in a day. Russian sappers neutralized more than 2.6 thousand hectares in the DPR and LPR, only in the last day 34 hectares, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, said on Thursday. 20,270 people, including 3,185 children, have been evacuated from dangerous areas to Russia, he said. Russia has delivered a total of more than 25.4 thousand tons of humanitarian aid to Ukraine since March 2. Mizintsev also said that Ukrainian militants are holding civilians in Zelenodolsk (Dnipropetrovsk region), preventing them from returning to villages controlled by the Russian Armed Forces in the Kherson region. Since the beginning of May, mercenaries have dried up in Ukraine, their total number in Ukraine has decreased from 6.6 to 3.5 thousand people, Konashenkov said. Mercenaries prefer to leave Ukraine due to heavy losses in battles, but the Kyiv regime prevents them from leaving, he said.
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The forces of the DPR in a few days expect to take into the «cauldron» a grouping of Ukrainian military in the area of Lisichansk and Severodonetsk, said on Thursday the deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the Republic of Eduard Basurin. Problems with the export of grain Istanbul, 20 million tons of grain is expected to be brought to the markets, Turkish media reported. Earlier, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that the UN has a proposal: to create a contact group of four parties (Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, the UN) on the withdrawal of ships with grain from Ukrainian ports. According to him, Turkey agreed in principle and the idea to hold a technical meeting appeared.Oleg Kobyakov: the conflict in Ukraine threatens to starve 13 million peopleIn addition, it is reported that Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and the UN have prepared a roadmap to provide a corridor for the withdrawal of ships with grain, a meeting in Istanbul to discuss the details is planned in the coming days.Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin discussed the situation in Ukraine with a focus on food security with UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths on Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. Earlier, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin discussed with Griffiths the humanitarian situation in Ukraine and the blocks Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters. Tribunal over the Nazis Instructors from NATO countries and foreign mercenaries will find themselves in the dock of an international tribunal, and sponsors of nationalist battalions may also be there, the chairman of the committee on criminal and administrative legislation told RIA Novosti People's Council of the DPR Elena Shishkina.
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She added that the Charter of the international tribunal for Ukrainian militants will comply with all the norms of conventions for the protection of human rights. Earlier, the DPR Ombudsman Daria Morozova told RIA Novosti that the office of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the republic was collecting evidence of the crimes of Ukrainian armed groups, which would be used in a military tribunal against Ukrainian militants. On Wednesday, Shishkina said that the first «intermediate» meeting of the tribunal could take place at the end of summer, it will be the «Mariupol Tribunal» — by analogy with the tribunals of the Second World War. eight years, said the head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik.
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