MoD Russia, [16.03.2022 03:08] [This is all from the Russian MoD Telegram channel https://t.me/mod_russia_en.]
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
▪️The grouping of troops of the Lugansk People’s Republic, continuing offensive operation, is fighting inside Severodonetsk city limits in the north-west, north-east and east.
▪️Units of the Donetsk People’s Republic, developing the offensive, took control of Mikhaylovka, Stavka, Botmanka, Vasilevka and are fighting for Verkhnetoretsk.
💥 During the day, aviation and air defenсe means of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down: 2 Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft near Chernihov, 1 MiG-29 near Novaya Bykovka, as well as 4 unmanned aerial vehicles.
✈️💥 Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 128 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Among them: 1 Buk-M1 air defence system, 1 Osa air defence system, 4 radar detection and targeting stations, 4 command posts, 7 armament and ammunition depots and 68 areas of military equipment concentration.
💥 In total, 111 Ukrainian aircraft, 68 helicopters, 160 unmanned aerial vehicles, 159 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,353 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 129 multiple launch rocket systems, 493 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,096 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.
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MoD Russia, [16.03.2022 04:06]
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry (Video)
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MoD Russia, [16.03.2022 05:01]
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🇷🇺💥 Russian artillery destroyed missile and artillery ammunition depot and up to 20 pieces of weapons and military equipment of Ukraine.
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MoD Russia, [16.03.2022 06:51]
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▪️ Captured Ukrainian military equipment and weapons from Western countries are being handed over to the units of the people’s militia of the Lugansk and Donetsk people’s republics.
▪️Tanks, other armored vehicles and weapons, received by the Donetsk and Lugansk military personnel, were abandoned at their positions and warehouses by the retreating Ukrainian nationalists.
▪️All captured Ukrainian equipment and weapons transferred to the personnel will be used to liberate and protect the territory of the people’s republics.
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MoD Russia, [16.03.2022 10:38]
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💥 Footage shows the destruction of the missile and artillery depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
💥 Russian high-precision missile hit the missile and artillery depots of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The depots were completely destroyed.
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MoD Russia, [16.03.2022 12:54]
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
▪️The grouping of troops of the Lugansk People’s Republic, developing the offensive, are moving forward from several directions inside Severodonetsk.
▪️Units of the Donetsk People’s Republic are fighting for the capture of Maryinka. The advance was 2 kilometers.
▪️On the morning of March 16, high-precision long-range weapons attacked Ukraine’s military infrastructure. As a result of the strike, communication, retransmission and switching hubs were disabled in Vinnytsa.
💥 During the day, aviation and air defence means of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down 1 Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter Sarany, as well as 6 unmanned aerial vehicles.
✈️💥 Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 34 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Among them: 1 multiple launch rocket system, 3 command posts, 1 electronic warfare station, 7 ammunition depots and 19 areas of military equipment concentration.
💥 In total, 180 aircraft and helicopters, 166 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,367 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 132 multiple launch rocket systems, 502 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,156 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
❗️We know for sure that with the support of Western countries, the Ukrainian Security Service is preparing a provocation with the use of toxic substances against civilians.
▪️The purpose of the provocation is to accuse Russia of using chemical weapons against the population of Ukraine.
▪️I want to officially state that the units of the Russian Armed Forces involved in the special military operation do not have chemical munitions.
▪️The Russian Federation, unlike the United States, has long fulfilled its international obligations by completely destroying all chemical weapons stockpiles.
▪️To prevent any provocations of Ukrainian nationalists with toxic substances, Russian servicemen in the liberated territory take dangerous objects under control and ensure their safety.
▪️I will add that among the combat documentation captured by us in the 4th brigade of the Ukrainian National Guard, there is a detailed map of the territory of Ukraine with objects and types of toxic substances stored on it. Therefore, any attempt of Ukrainian Security Service provocation with the use of toxic substances will be revealed.
❗️We have repeatedly mentioned facts about the atrocities of nationalists terrorizing civilians for any disobedience or attempts to leave settlements.
▪️Today, footage of civilians killed in Chernihov, who were supposedly “shot by Russian servicemen,” was circulated on all propaganda resources of the Kiev regime. It was stated that all victims were allegedly queuing for bread.
▪️I would like to stress the absence Russian servicemen in Chernihov.
▪️All units of the Russian Armed Forces are outside Chernihov, blocking roads, and are not conducting any offensive actions on the city.
▪️There are no traces of ammunition explosions on the video footage replicated by Ukrainian propagandists. All windows in nearby buildings are intact. There is no damage to the walls, there are no other traces of an explosion on the ground.
▪️Thus, all the dead people – victims of the terror of Ukrainian nationalists or these video footage – are another stage of the Security Service of Ukraine. We would like to draw your attention to the fact that simultaneously with Ukrainian Internet resources, this fake was published on the official pages of the US Embassy in Ukraine on social networks without any verification and obtaining evidence.
▪️At the same time, the embassy itself, as you know, has already been relocated from Kiev, to Lvov. And it does not notice how Russian servicemen deliver and distribute hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid to residents of Chernihov region in settlements liberated from nationalists.
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MoD Russia, [16.03.2022 14:36]
⚡️The Russian Defence Ministry denies accusations by the Kiev regime of allegedly delivering an air strike on the Drama Theater building in Mariupol, where civilians might have been held hostage.
On March 16, the Russian aviation did not carry out any tasks related to strikes on ground targets in the city limits of Mariupol.
According to reliable reports, militants of the Azov nationalist battalion committed a new bloody provocation by blowing up a theater building they had previously mined.
It was previously known from refugees who escaped from Mariupol that Nazis of the Azov battalion could hold civilians hostage in the theater building, using the upper floors as firing points.
Given the potential danger to the lives of civilians and the provocation with Hospital No. 3 in Mariupol, which was already carried out by the nationalists on March 9, the theater building in the city center was never considered a target for attack.
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MoD Russia, [16.03.2022 15:03]
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Meeting of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
▪️ The humanitarian situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate, and in some cities, where gangs of nationalists and criminals are operating with the full connivance of official Kiev, it has already become catastrophic.
▪️ The Russian Federation continues its purposeful and coordinated work to evacuate civilians and foreign citizens to safe areas, and also implements a set of measures to restore peaceful life in the territories of Ukraine liberated from neo-nationalists.
▪️ The humanitarian operation continues in Mariupol. During the day, 31,367 civilians, including 89 foreigners, were safely evacuated from the unblocked city along humanitarian corridors. These are 71 OSCE representatives, 9 Greek citizens and 9 Pakistani citizens.
Of the more than 31,000 Ukrainian civilians evacuated, only 36 went to settlements in Kiev-controlled areas in Dnepropetrovsk region, while 99% of those rescued wished to go to Russia, as well as to settlements in Russian Armed Forces-controlled territory, to liberated areas in Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. They categorically refused to move to Kiev-controlled territories.
▪️ The entire humanitarian operation has been planned, prepared and is currently being carried out only by means of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Armed Forces of Russia without any participation of the Ukrainian side.
▪️ At the same time, official Kiev, hastened to appropriate the successes of this humanitarian operation with a wide spread in the national media without doing anything for it, but on the contrary, the Kiev authorities took all measures to ensure that this human shield for the Nazis continued to remain in the city. This is the real cynicism of the current Ukrainian authorities, including high-level representatives who blatantly lie to their citizens and the world community. And this is not just cynicism, but cynicism with signs of neo-Nazism towards its own people.
▪️ The rescued residents of Mariupol, once they are safe, openly speak of the mass atrocities and crimes, the abuse of defenceless elderly people, women and children by the Nazis of the territorial defence battalions, who felt complete impunity and killed those who offered even the slightest resistance on the spot.
▪️ Every Mariupol citizen who has survived the horrors and humiliations of neo-Nazis is provided with individual highly qualified medical and psychological assistance.
▪️ Therefore, questions arise for the authorities in Kiev:
why hold their own citizens hostage and keep them out of Kiev, Kharkov, Chernigov, Sumy and many other localities;
why don’t you listen to them and disregard their right to control their own lives?
You are holding hostage, first and foremost, those who made up their minds a long time ago and are ready to leave for the safe places in the Russian Federation.
▪️ The number of Mariupol residents evacuated to Russian territory and to areas controlled by the Russian Armed Forces is clear evidence of this.
▪️ We are forced to raise the same issues with international organizations and today we are sending them a formal appeal for the Ukrainian authorities to create an environment that complies with all international legal standards for genocide of civilians.
A total of 450 tonnes of medicines, basic necessities and food, including baby food, have been handed over to the population of Mariupol since the start of the humanitarian operation.
▪️ In addition, a range of humanitarian activities are ongoing on other fronts.
MoD Russia, [16.03.2022 15:03]
▪️Thus, as of 10am today, we have once again opened and secured humanitarian corridors in the Kiev, Chernigov, Sumy and Kharkov directions:
one corridor eastward into Russian territory;
and one more through Kiev-controlled territory towards Ukraine’s western borders.
▪️The Russian Armed Forces strictly observe the ceasefire in these corridors.
▪️Despite earlier agreements, today the Ukrainian side has not provided the Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response with an official written approval at all, and, accordingly, the Kiev authorities have not notified representatives of foreign embassies, specialized UN structures, the OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international organizations based in Ukraine about the planned humanitarian operations.
▪️Local administrations also did not notify citizens. Information about the time and place of the opening of humanitarian corridors has once again been deliberately withheld from the population; people do not know where and when to go to save their lives. The Joint Coordination Headquarters has received over 63,000 appeals on these issues from all over Ukraine today through various communication channels. These appeals are not only about humanitarian corridors towards the Russian Federation, but also in any direction, just to get to safe places.
▪️These circumstances once again confirm the carelessness and unwillingness of official Kiev to fulfil its obligations to the people of Ukraine.
▪️On the basis of humane principles, in order to ensure the evacuation of civilians forcibly held by nationalists in blocked settlements, today we are once again declare ceasefire in the Kiev, Zaporozhye, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Kharkov and Poltava directions along the humanitarian corridors previously proposed by the Ukrainian side.
▪️This has been confirmed repeatedly by means of objective monitoring, including the use of drones.
▪️The neo-Nazis do not let anyone out of the humanitarian corridors open to the Russian Federation, threatening physical punishment, and those who manage to break through are ruthlessly fired upon.
▪️Today, the Ukrainian side once again shelled a bus convoy with refugees travelling in a humanitarian corridor towards Russia in the Kharkov direction. As a result, four people were killed and there are wounded.
▪️We demand that the Ukrainian side strictly comply with all conditions to ensure the safety of humanitarian corridors in all directions for the organized evacuation of the population and foreign citizens.
▪️We appeal to the leaders of the United Nations, the OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international organizations and urge them to use the authority and capacity of your organizations to force the authorities in Kiev to fulfil their humanitarian obligations to ensure the security of Ukrainian civilians and foreign citizens.
▪️Ordinary people are looking for any opportunity to evacuate north and east to the Russian Federation and are not even considering other options to the west, including to EU states. This is primarily evidenced by the millions of appeals from Ukrainian citizens and foreigners seeking help.
As of today, the database already contains 2,688,726 people wishing to evacuate from almost two thousand settlements in Ukraine.
In the past 24 hours alone, 10,657 more Ukrainian civilians and foreigners have contacted the official structures of the Russian Federation and directly the Joint Coordination Headquarters through various channels with requests to evacuate to Russia.
▪️I quote one of these appeals:
“I beg for help. I am located in Sumy. Save my hometown from the Nazis. I understand that the “green corridor” to my relatives in the Kursk region requires the consent of the city authorities, but there are cases where this has to be taken unilaterally, aren’t there? We are going to die at the hands of these bandits, they all have guns, help”. We are going to die at the hands of these bandits, they all have guns, help”.
MoD Russia, [16.03.2022 15:03]
▪️ 6,910 citizens from 22 foreign countries as well as crews of 70 foreign vessels blocked in Ukrainian seaports due to the high mine threat posed by the Kiev authorities in its internal waters and territorial sea, as well as possible provocations by the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the coast remain hostages of militants of the territorial defence battalions.
▪️Despite all the difficulties and obstacles imposed by the Ukrainian side to organize the evacuation of civilians, over the past day, without the participation of Kiev, 12,440 people were evacuated from dangerous areas, including 2,242 children, and in total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 271,231 people have already been evacuated, of which 58,422 are children.
▪️The state border of the Russian Federation was crossed by 31,022 units of personal vehicles, of which 1,731 units per day.
▪️In the regions of the Russian Federation, more than 9.5 thousand temporary accommodation facilities continue to function normally. Individual work is carried out with each person arriving on the territory of Russia with practical assistance in solving the most urgent priority issues. There is a sufficient number of vehicles at the checkpoints, including comfortable buses, to transport refugees to their chosen places of residence or to temporary accommodation facilities where medical care and hot meals are organized.
▪️The federal executive authorities, together with the subjects of Russia, various public organizations, patriotic movements, continue to accumulate humanitarian aid. There are already over 19 thousand tons of basic necessities, food and medicines at the collection points.
The Russian side is creating all the necessary conditions in the liberated territories for unhindered access to humanitarian aid for everyone.
▪️For Ukrainians, forgotten and in fact betrayed by their own authorities, Russian humanitarian aid remains almost the only way to survive in these catastrophic conditions.
▪️At the same time, the mayors of Ukrainian cities resell medicines, clothing and food coming from international organizations, in particular from the International Red Cross, to local entrepreneurs. Such facts are reliably established in the cities: Zhytomyr, Ivano-Frankovsk, Vinnytsa, Rovno, Lutsk, Dubno, Vladimir-Volynsky and Lvov.
▪️Since March 2, the Russian Federation has already delivered 2,994 tons of humanitarian cargo to Ukraine, 349 humanitarian actions have been carried out, including 15 in the Chernigov region and Donetsk People’s Republic over the past day, during which 510 tons of food, hygiene products and medicines were transferred to the civilian population of the liberated areas.
▪️Today, 36 humanitarian actions are being held in the Kharkov region and in the republics of Donbass, during which 275 tons of basic necessities and food are being transferred to the population.
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