MOSCOW, Feb 12 Krasnaya Gora settlement in the DPR taken on Sunday, said the founder of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
There is also information that supporters of Ukraine have circulated among the UN members a draft anti-Russian resolution for voting in the UN General Assembly at the end of the month, its discussion is scheduled for February 23.
The course of the operation Russian air defense shot down 17 Ukrainian drones in the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics and the Zaporozhye region, the Russian Defense Ministry said. In addition, 12 HIMARS, Alder and Uragan multiple rocket launchers were shot down.
The «Vostok» grouping of the RF Armed Forces in the South-Donetsk direction destroyed more than 50 Ukrainian soldiers in a day, the Ministry of Defense added. In addition, two ammunition depots were destroyed near Elizavetovka in the DPR and Druzhelyubovka in the Zaporozhye region.
The southern grouping of the Russian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction destroyed over 250 Ukrainian soldiers, 12 pieces of equipment, as well as an artillery depot in a day. In addition, an ammunition depot was destroyed near Belogorovka in the LPR.
In the Kupyansky and Krasnolimansky directions, Kyiv lost up to 180 servicemen per day. In the Krasnolimansky direction, the Ministry of Defense clarified, assault and army aviation, artillery and heavy flamethrower systems of the «Center» group of troops defeated Ukrainian units in the areas of the settlements of Torskoye, Yampolovka (DPR), Stelmahovka, Nevskoye, Chervonopopovka and Chervonaya Dibrova (LPR), as well as Serebryansky forestry.
Russian aviation and artillery destroyed the Ukrainian Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile system in the Krasny Liman region in the DPR, the Russian Defense Ministry said. It is noted that in total, operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery of the groups of troops of the Russian Armed Forces in a day defeated 78 artillery units of the Ukrainian military at firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 119 districts.
The Russian Aerospace Forces launched a missile attack on the shops of an engineering plant in Kharkov, where they made armored vehicles.
In the direction of Kherson, Russian troops destroyed the Ukrainian howitzers «Gvozdika», «Acacia» and the American radar station AN/TPQ-50.
Founder of the «Wagner» group Yevgeny Prigozhin reported that the assault units of the group took the settlement of Krasnaya Gora in the DPR.
The mayor of Mariupol, Oleg Morgun, hopes that the city will have a base for the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
Preparing a UN resolution The Associated Press, citing a document in its possession, said that Ukraine's supporters had circulated among UN members a draft anti-Russian resolution for a vote in the UN General Assembly at the end of February, its discussion is scheduled for the 23rd, and the vote is scheduled for late evening in same day. At the same time, Polina Kubiak, the official representative of the chairman of the General Assembly of the world organization, reported earlier that the 11th emergency special session of the UN General Assembly, convened in February 2022 after the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, would resume work on February 22.
Later, UN sources reported that the anti-Russian draft UN General Assembly resolution on «the principles underlying a comprehensive, just and sustainable peace in Ukraine» proposed by Western countries is being discussed in the General Assembly. At the same time, as far as one can judge from the text, the authors adhere to the Ukrainian view of a «just world».
A vote on the document is expected during the emergency special session of the General Assembly, which resumes work on February 22. The session is convened by a number of Western countries, including Ukraine, and is timed to coincide with the anniversary of the start of a special military operation.
Israel is ready to mediate Israel is ready to mediate in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, if Kyiv and Moscow so desire, Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Brodsky said.
He also said that Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen would pay a visit to Ukraine in the coming days. He added that Israel will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to Ukraine within its «red lines».
President of Poland Andrzej Duda said that Russia can defeat Ukraine if the West does not provide urgent assistance to Kyiv with weapons.
To end the military conflict, the United States should offer Kyiv a multi-billion dollar plan to restore the country in exchange for a ceasefire, said the leader of the Forward Italy party and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.