Russian Guard serviceman in Ukraine. Archive photoMOSCOW, May 21.On the 87th day of the special operation in Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that Russian high-precision missiles had destroyed a batch of weapons from the United States and Europe near Zhytomyr, and air defense and aviation shot down two Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft in the Kherson region and the DPR and 14 drones in a day. Meanwhile, Vladimir Zelensky spoke about the size of the Ukrainian army and said that he was counting on the exchange of militants who had surrendered to Azovstal. The course of the operationRussian high-precision sea-based missiles destroyed a large batch of weapons in the Zhytomyr region, delivered to Ukrainian troops from Europe and the United States, said on Saturday at the morning briefing by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov. He added that high-precision air-launched missiles destroyed fuel storage facilities at the Odessa Port Plant. The fuel was intended for armored vehicles of Ukrainian nationalists. Also, Russian air defense and aviation shot down two Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft in the Kherson region and the DPR, 14 drones and eight shells of the Smerch MLRS in the areas of the settlements of Malaya Kamyshevakha, Kamenka, Brazhkovka in the Kharkiv region and Chernobaevka, Kherson region, he said.March 12, 14:46Special military operation in UkraineMap of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine as of May 21, 2022 in the Drobyshevo area, the general said. Russian high-precision air-launched missiles hit three command posts, including the command post of the 109th Territorial Defense Brigade in the area of the settlement of Bakhmut, 36 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as eight ammunition depots and eight ammunition depots of the Ukrainian military, Konashenkov said. Artillery and missile forces of the Russian Federation destroyed 77 command posts of the Ukrainian military and 43 artillery and mortar units, 10 ammunition depots, a Buk-M1 air defense missile launcher and 2 Grad MLRS batteries, hit 602 clusters manpower and technology tivnik, he said. Konashenkov also said that more than 400 Ukrainian installations of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) have already been destroyed during the Russian special military operation. />The masks have been dropped: the West has exposed its Nazi essence»Azovstal»Vladimir Zelensky said on Saturday that he was counting on the exchange of militants who had surrendered to Azovstal.»The guys received a signal from the military that they have every right to go out and save their lives … That's all depends on what the UN, the ICRC, the Russian Federation took upon themselves when they promised that they (Ukrainian troops) would be safe and expect this or that exchange format,» he said. In turn, the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin believes that a tribunal over the militants hiding at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol is inevitable and this is the request of society. Zelensky also said that the number of Ukrainian troops is 700 thousand people. At the very beginning of 1922, I signed a decree… we have money, no, but plus 100,000. But even these 100,000 couldn't stop them… Today it's 700,000. You see the result of the work of 700,000 people who fight t…», — he said. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported on May 20 that the territory of «Azovstal» was completely liberated, «the underground facilities of the enterprise, in which the militants were hiding, came under the complete control of the Russian Armed Forces.» In total, according to the RF Ministry of Defense, since May 16, 2,439 Nazis of the Azov Regiment laid down their arms and surrendered as prisoners (criminal cases have been opened against its fighters in Russia) and the Ukrainian military, who were blocked on the territory of the plant for about a month.
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