British citizen Sean Pinner, citizen of the Kingdom of Morocco Saadoun Brahim and British citizen Aiden Eslin in a courtroom in Donetsk. File photoMOSCOW, June 10The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on Friday about new defeats of Ukrainian aviation and equipment: Ukrainian aviation at the Dnepr military airfield was destroyed by high-precision air-launched missiles. In the Kharkov region, the production facilities of an enterprise for the restoration of weapons and military equipment have been liquidated. Meanwhile, Russian and Western politicians will continue to discuss the issue of the death sentence for British mercenaries who fought in Ukraine. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss called the verdict «a flagrant violation.» To which the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the British convicted in the DPR are mercenaries, not prisoners of war. The official representative of the diplomatic department, Maria Zakharova, also said that London did not contact the Russian Foreign Ministry regarding the British convicted in the DPR.
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Over the past 24 hours, Russian air defense systems have destroyed a Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft in the area of Dolgenkiy, Kharkiv region, a MiG-29 fighter jet in the area of the village of Ingulets, Dnepropetrovsk region, and five drones, Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, said at a briefing on Friday. intercepted four Tochka-U missiles in the LPR and the Kharkiv region, as well as three shells of the Uragan multiple launch rocket system in the DPR and the Kharkiv region. In the Kharkiv region, the production facilities of an enterprise for the restoration of weapons and military equipment were destroyed, Konashenkov said.
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In addition, he clarified that air-launched high-precision missiles hit: two command posts, 27 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, five firing positions of Ukrainian artillery, including two batteries of multiple launch rocket systems in the areas of Soledar and Praskoviyivka of the DPR. Also, five depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition were hit in the areas of Bakhmut and Berestovoye in the DPR and Loskutovka in the LPR. Over the past day, Russian missile forces and artillery destroyed more than 350 Nazis, 11 Ukrainian depots with weapons and ammunition, 62 command posts, 138 firing positions artillery, said a representative of the Russian Defense Ministry. Russian aviation destroyed more than 150 Nazis in Ukraine, as well as 6 tanks, 4 artillery pieces and two installations of the Grad MLRS, Konashenkov said. In total, during the special operation in Ukraine, Russian troops destroyed up to 2.5 thousand aircraft, including 195 aircraft, 130 helicopters, 1168 unmanned aerial vehicles, 336 anti-aircraft missile systems, he said.
14:44InfographicMap of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine as of 06/10/2022InfographicViewSentence to foreign mercenaries in the DPR The issue of the death sentence for foreign mercenaries in the DPR has been further developed. calling the sentence handed down against them a «flagrant violation». In turn, Deputy Minister of Education of the United Kingdom Robin Walker stressed that London would continue to use all diplomatic channels in connection with the decision of the DPR, noting that their trial was «illegitimate.» hype», which «sometimes comes to hysteria». The British convicted in the DPR are mercenaries, not prisoners of war, she stressed. She also said that London did not apply to the Russian Foreign Ministry regarding the British convicted in the DPR. «From this we can draw an unambiguous conclusion that, so far, the fate of these citizens was not essentially interested in London,» Zakharova noted. According to her, Moscow repeatedly informed the British Embassy in the Russian Federation that all questions of captured British should be addressed to the authorities of the DPR and LPR.British mercenary told how he persuaded Ukrainian fighters to surrender Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also raised the issue of foreign mercenaries on Friday and urged not to speculate on this topic, recalling that they were convicted under the legislation of the republic, since their crimes were committed there. all the processes that you mentioned are based on the legislation of the Donetsk People's Republic, because the crimes in question were committed on the territory of the DPR. system of the Donetsk People's Republic,» Lavrov said. In turn, the British mercenary Aiden Aslin himself, who surrendered in Mariupol and was sentenced to death, said in an interview with RT that he expected much worse conditions in captivity. Another mercenary, Sean Pinner, advised the mercenaries not to come to Ukraine. The family of Aiden Aslin expressed the hope that the sentence would be canceled and called on London and Kyiv to do everything possible to return the convicts. Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin, and Moroccan citizen Saadoun Brahim. All three pleaded guilty to armed aggression aimed at seizing power in the DPR. Aslin also pleaded guilty under the article «Training in order to carry out terrorist activities.» According to the laws of the DPR, the verdict can be challenged within a month. The official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, said that the mercenaries who arrived in Ukraine are not combatants and «the best thing that awaits them is a long term in prison.» » /> The Foreign Ministry called London's reaction to the sentence on mercenaries in the DPR a hysteria