MOSCOW, March 11. Vostok grouping of troops of the Russian Armed Forces attacked positions the enemy in the Yuzhnodonetsk and Zaporozhye directions, destroying up to 70 military and five pieces of equipment, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.
Vladimir Zelensky instructed Prime Minister Denis Shmygal to work out the possibility of «renaming» Russia into Muscovy.
The course of the operationRussian air defense systems shot down 11 Ukrainian drones, 4 MLRS shells and 4 HARM anti-radar missiles over the past day, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday. On the Kupyansky and Krasnolimansky directions, Kyiv lost about 140 military personnel per day. The grouping of troops of the RF Armed Forces «Vostok» attacked enemy positions in the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, destroying up to 70 military personnel, 5 pieces of equipment, the Russian Defense Ministry added. The Russian military defeated 75 Ukrainian artillery units in firing positions, as well as manpower and equipment in 114 districts.
The Russian military destroyed two Ukrainian counter-battery radars manufactured in the DPR in the DPR. The southern group of troops of the Russian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction destroyed more than 140 Ukrainian soldiers and 11 pieces of equipment in a day. In the Kherson direction, Russian troops destroyed more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen and an ammunition depot in a day, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Deliveries of weapons to UkraineThe first Leopard 1 tanks from Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands will be transferred to Ukraine in early May, Acting Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said. Kyiv is ready to send military personnel to Norway in the near future to learn how to operate NASAMS air defense systems, the Ukrainian Air Force reported.
Earlier, the Norwegian Ministry of Defense reported that Norway, in cooperation with the United States, will transfer two units of NASAMS systems to Ukraine and will train the Ukrainian military to work with it. The announcement was made against the backdrop of a visit by Norwegian Defense Minister Bjorn Arild Gram to Kyiv.
Commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces Oleksandr Syrsky believes that the retention of Artemivsk (Ukrainian name — Bakhmut) helps Kyiv gain time. Kyiv has begun transferring reserves of Ukrainian troops from the Zaporozhye direction near Artemovsk, said Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the movement «We are together with Russia», a member of the main council of the regional administration.
Persecution against the UOCPatriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill addressed religious leaders and international figures with a message about the situation around the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, calling the goals of Ukrainian officials who expel the monks of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) from it repressive. Ukrainian security forces are seizing the icons of the family of the royal martyrs from the clergy of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), said the rector of the St. Tikhvin Cathedral of the UOC in Lisichansk, Archpriest Andrei Pavlenko. He also said that the UOC priest Mykola Zirka, who was held by the Ukrainian security forces, was released during a prisoner exchange in February.
The Ukrainian opposition politician Viktor Medvedchuk also commented on the situation with the persecution of the UOC: the Ukrainian state has turned into a creation of Frankenstein, but Ukrainians are not zombies, the Kiev authorities will not be able to turn Ukraine into a corpse, he said.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky instructed Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal to «thoroughly work out» the possibility of renaming Russia into Muscovy. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called this confirmation of the thesis that they are trying to make «anti-Russia» out of Ukraine.
The Vatican is taking certain steps of a diplomatic nature in connection with the situation around Ukraine, but we are not talking about any peace plan, Pope Francis said in an interview with the newspaper La Nación. He also said that he was ready to go to Kyiv, but on the condition that he would go to Moscow.