Russian Su-35 multirole fighter in Kharkiv region. File photoMOSCOW, June 8Russian aviation with high-precision missiles hit an armored plant in Kharkov, where the equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was being repaired, and also destroyed a command post, eight tanks, two MLRS installations, an artillery battery and an electronic warfare station of the Ukrainian military in a day, said Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov. «High-precision air-launched missiles in the Kharkiv region hit an armored plant, in whose workshops repairs and restoration of tanks and other armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were carried out,» an official representative of the defense department said. In addition, Russian aviation destroyed a command post, eight tanks, two installations of MLRS, an artillery battery and an electronic warfare station of the Ukrainian military. Russian air defense systems shot down two MiG-29 fighters, as well as one helicopter and 11 drones of the Ukrainian Air Force in a day, and Russian missile troops and artillery destroyed three Ukrainian batteries of the Smerch MLRS and «Hurricane,» the general declared.
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Konashenkov also noted that “as a result of the strikes, more than 320 nationalists, four ammunition depots in the Novolenovka district of the Zaporozhye region, nine armored vehicles, three Grad multiple rocket launchers, 15 field artillery guns and mortars, 14 special vehicles, and also combat vehicles of anti-aircraft missile systems «Buk-M1» in the area of Shelkoplyasy and «Osa-AKM» in Verkhnyaya Roganka, Kharkiv region. operations (SVO). The Ukrainian grouping in the Donbass suffers significant losses in manpower, only during the liberation of Svyatogorsk more than 300 military were killed. suffered. The Prosecutor General's Office of the Donetsk People's Republic announced the initiation of criminal cases against Ukrainian security forces under the article «terrorist attack» due to shelling on the territory of the republic on June 6, according to the Telegram channel of the Prosecutor General's Office.
Yesterday, 14:46InfographicMap of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine as of 06/08/2022InfographicViewMore than 16,000 refugees from Donbass crossed checkpoints at the border in the Rostov region over the past day, according to the Border Directorate of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the region. in the middle of February. Subsequently, Russia recognized the independence of the DPR and LPR, and on February 24 launched a special military operation in Ukraine to demilitarize and denazify. International situationThe Russian Foreign Ministry said that Kyiv continues to recruit foreign mercenaries, most actively recruiting Afghan refugees and IS militants *. «To replenish the thinning ranks armed forces of Ukraine, the Kyiv regime continues to recruit foreign mercenaries.According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, more than 6.5 thousand so-called «soldiers of fortune» from the United States, Britain, Israel, Poland, Canada and the Czech Republic have already been recruited abroad, «she said in briefing on Wednesday.
The British warned Zelensky about the imminent betrayal of London. In addition, the Foreign Office urges the UK to take measures to prevent the participation of its citizens in the hostilities in Ukraine. According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, the British Embassy in Moscow regularly contacts the Russian Foreign Ministry about mercenaries detained in Donbass to clarify their fate. The Russian Federation warned that the responsibility for citizens of foreign countries who took part in armed activities in Ukraine lies entirely with the governments of these states. At the same time, the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov said that London did not turn to Moscow to assist in the exchange of captured British mercenaries who surrendered in Mariupol. And answering the question whether an attempt to appeal the verdict can be considered as London’s recognition of the sovereignty of the DPR, he noted that “this is how the question can be posed.” Meanwhile, the press service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated that foreign citizens and stateless persons who participate in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine as part of Ukrainian regular units, receive the status of combatants, as well as the right to be treated as prisoners of war.
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«All foreign citizens and stateless persons who take part in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine as part of the armed forces of Ukraine are voluntarily recruited for military service under a contract in accordance with the Law of Ukraine «On military duties and military service» of 1992. The persons concerned are members of the armed forces of Ukraine, who, in accordance with the provisions of the Geneva Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War of 1949 and the Additional Protocols to them of 1977, are subject to the legal status of combatants,» the statement says. The Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said earlier that «the mercenaries who arrived in Ukraine are not combatants, the best thing that awaits them is a long term in prison.» He noted that foreign mercenaries do not have the status of combatants under international humanitarian law.* A terrorist group banned in Russia
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