🇷🇺🇺🇦Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine (April 8, 2022)

▫️The Russian Federation takes a daily initiative to the Ukrainian side to exchange prisoners.

▫️On April 5, 2022, an agreement was reached with the Ukrainian side to exchange 251 servicemen. Within 24 hours, the number of prisoners of war was steadily declining. As a result, the list agreed at the last stage included only 38 servicemen, which was rejected by the Ukrainian side without explanation.

▫️At the same time, the Russian Federation prepared 251 Ukrainian POWs in full, including transporting them to the source area for the exchange.

▫️During April 6 and 7, 2022, the Russian side declared an exchange format of 251 people for 251, while the Ukrainian side kept reducing the lists and eventually rejected the exchange.

▫️The prisoner-of-war exchange planned for April 8, 2022, due to the fault of the Ukrainian side, once again failed to take place. The Ukrainian authorities overnight repeatedly changed the format of the exchange and reduced the number of prisoners of war declared for exchange, planned exchange was subsequently rejected by the Ukrainian side also without explanation.

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⚡️⚡️ Foreign Ministry statement on Ukraine’s strike at Kramatorsk.

On April 8, the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) committed yet another war crime by striking a railway station in Kiev-controlled Kramatorsk with a Tochka-U tactical missile.

Dozens were killed and over a hundred injured.

🕯 We convey our deep condolences to the families and friends of the deceased.

🚫 The choice of the target was not random – the Kiev regime is striving to maximise the number of civilian victims.

Their murders in Donbass have become standard practice for Ukrainian armed units in the past eight years. By cynically killing civilians in cold blood, Kiev is trying to blame Russia for its own crimes in order to discredit Moscow’s special military operation to defend the DPR and the LPR.

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❗️ We urge the international community to objectively evaluate the crimes committed by Ukrainian units, to stop supplying them with arms and prompt Kiev to renounce its unacceptable methods of hostility.

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⛔️Russian Defence Ministry denies statements made by Kiev regime about an alleged missile attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Region.

📸In order to accuse Russia of an alleged missile strike on Kramatorsk railway station, Kiev regime has posted on social media pictures of Tochka-U missile launchers that took part in "Union Courage 2022" Russian-Belarusian exercise in February. All photos published by Kiev from "Union Courage 2022" exercise show non-Russian missile systems. Tochka-U tactical missiles whose wreckage was found near Kramatorsk railway station are used only by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

▫️An analysis of the engagement radius of the warhead, as well as the characteristic position of Tochka-U missile's tail section, clearly confirm that it was launched from a south-western direction away from Kramatorsk. This area is still under the full control of the Ukrainian military grouping troops in Donbass.

💥 High-precision missiles of Bastion coastal missile system have destroyed the Foreign Mercenary Collection and Training Centre near Krasnoselka, northeast of Odessa. High-precision air-based missiles destroyed a large depot of missile and artillery weapons near Nimirovskoe, Odessa Region. Aviation equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was also destroyed at the Kanatovo military airfield in Kirovograd Region.

◽️ The results of radio intercepts show that in addition to Nazis from the Azov battalion and remnants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, there is a significant number of foreign mercenaries in the occupied areas of the city.

▫️ Kiev has once again disrupted the prisoner exchange. The Ukrainian authorities repeatedly changed the format of the exchange overnight and then rejected the possibility of the exchange without giving any reasons.

◽️ Ukrainian nationalists continue to hold 6,362 foreign nationals from 13 countries hostage as human shield.

🚛 In Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics and Kherson Region, 197 tonnes of essential goods and food have been handed over to the population. Russian servicemen evacuated over 300 civilians from the combat zone in Kherson Region.

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🇷🇺 Russian Federation Armed Forces' Engineer Troops cleared unexploded ammunition from farmland and the territory of the village after shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

▫️All the ammunition discovered by Russian military engineers was destroyed in a safe, designated area.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry (video) (April 8, 2022)

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💥Su-30SM and Su-35 sorties: destruction of AFU air defence means

▫️Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft crews carried out missions to detect, capture and destroy Buk-M1 radar station and anti-aircraft missile system.

▫️The pilots launched air-to-surface missiles.

🎥Destruction of targets is confirmed by objective control data.

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💥Destruction of AFU tank the crew of which was operating from behind cover in an industrial area

▫️The tank was detected by an unmanned aerial vehicle.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry

▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.

💥During the night, high-precision air-based missiles destroyed a large ammunition depot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the Novomoskovsk, Dnepropetrovsk Region.

💥MiG-29 fighter jet and Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force, as well as a depot with aerial warfare equipment were detected and destroyed during aerial reconnaissance at Mirgorod military airfield, Poltava region.

💥Russian Air Defence means shot down 4 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the air near Belogorka, Krasnogorovka and Krutaya Balka.

✈️💥Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 85 military assets of Ukraine. Among them: 2 command posts, 3 multiple rocket launchers, 4 self-propelled artillery mounts, 1 field ammunition depot with ammunition supply point, 2 logistics depots, and 4 strong points and areas of Ukrainian military equipment concentration.

📊In total, 127 aircraft and 98 helicopters, 425 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,031 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 228 multiple launch rocket systems, 880 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,932 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.

▫️According to confirmed reports, the Kiev nationalist regime is preparing another provocation to accuse Russia of allegedly massacring civilians in Irpen, Kiev Region.

❗️I would like to draw your attention to the fact that units of the Russian Armed Forces left the town more than a week ago.

▫️The Security Service of Ukraine plans to bring the bodies of local residents killed by Ukrainian artillery shelling from the morgue of the town hospital on Polevaya Street to the basement of a building on the eastern outskirts of Irpen.

▫️Then a staged action with shooting and "destruction" of an alleged "Russian reconnaissance group" that arrived in Irpen "to kill witnesses of Russian war crimes" will be staged by the Security Service of Ukraine in Puscha-Voditskii forest area.

▫️At the same time, the bodies of captured Russian servicemen previously killed by nationalists under torture will be presented as "undeniable evidence" in the forest.

▫️This cynical staged action is organised for later distribution of video footage through the Western media.

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🇺🇦 Kiev nationalist regime is preparing another provocation to accuse Russia of allegedly massacring civilians in Irpen, Kiev Region

❗️Units of the Russian Armed Forces left the town more than a week ago.

▫️The Security Service of Ukraine plans to bring the bodies of local residents killed by Ukrainian artillery shelling from the morgue of the town hospital on Polevaya Street to the basement of a building on the eastern outskirts of Irpen.

▫️Then a staged action with shooting and "destruction" of an alleged "Russian reconnaissance group" that arrived in Irpen "to kill witnesses of Russian war crimes" will be staged by the Security Service of Ukraine in Puscha-Voditskii forest area.

▫️At the same time, the bodies of captured Russian servicemen previously killed by nationalists under torture will be presented as "undeniable evidence" in the forest.

▫️This cynical staged action is organised for later distribution of video footage through the Western media.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry (video)

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▫️Сamouflaged ammunition depot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces discovered and destroyed

💥AFU ammunition depot was detected by UAV and attacked with high-precision missile weapons.

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🇷🇺Movement of military equipment on a pontoon crossing of Severskii Donets River in Ukraine

▫️Reconnaissance of the route and security of the convoy is provided by drones and reconnaissance units.

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🇷🇺Russian and DPR servicemen evacuate civilians from Mariupol districts that remain in the area of possible shelling by Ukrainian nationalists

▫️During the day, more than 80 residents, including 14 children, were evacuated from the basements of residential buildings near the contact line.

▫️IFV-1 infantry fighting vehicles and armoured personnel carriers were used to safely evacuate civilians from under AFU fire.

▫️The movements of the evacuation units were camouflaged with smoke.

▫️All people were taken to safe locations. The inhabitants affected by the shelling were provided with qualified medical assistance by Russian servicemen, including at the medical unit of the special-purpose medical unit.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry

▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.

✈️💥During the day, operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces and missile troops hit 65 military assets of Ukraine. Among them: 4 command and communication hubs, 3 logistics depots, as well as 41 strong points and areas of Ukrainian military equipment concentration.

💥Russian air defence means shot down 3 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle in the air, 2 near Mariupol and Kalininskoe, and 1 Bayraktar TB-2 near Sakhnovschina, Kharkov region.

📊In total, 127 aircfaft and 98 helicopters, 428 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,037 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 229 multiple launch rocket systems, 886 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,941 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.

▫️The Kiev regime has not abandoned its attempts to evacuate the leaders of Azov nationalist regiment and foreign mercenaries from Mariupol. Previous actions to evacuate them by helicopter have failed.

❗️On the evening of April 8, the Kiev regime made another unsuccessful attempt to evacuate the Ukrainian Nazi leaders by sea.

▫️The Ukrainian Apache, a Maltese-flagged dry-cargo ship assigned to the Maltese port of Valetta, was sailing in a caravan of ships from the Gulf of Taganrog to the Kerch Strait in the nighttime.

▫️At 22:38 Moscow time, 30 km southeast of Mariupol, the dry-cargo ship suddenly changed its course and attempted to break through to the Mariupol seaport blocked from the sea by the Black Sea Fleet.

▫️The Ukrainian dry-cargo ship did not respond to Russian border guards' demands to contact them through the international channel and continued heading in the direction of Mariupol port.

▫️Warning artillery firing by two border patrol ships along the vessel's course did not cause the dry cargo ship to change course or slow down.

▫️While heading towards Mariupol port, the ship was engaged in radio communication, transmitting the messages "I am 'Maniac', coming for you". At the same time, signal fires were observed on the shore.

▫️To block the movement of the intruder vessel, from 22.53 to 23.30, the Black Sea Fleet and the border patrol ships opened artillery fire on the Apache dry-cargo ship.

▫️A direct hit caused a fire in the stern of the ship.

▫️The Ukrainian dry-cargo ship then went adrift, the crew got in touch with the border ships with a request to cease fire and confirmed their readiness to comply with all the demands of the Russian sailors.

❗️No crew members on the ship were injured as a result of the firing. The fire was extinguished by the ship's crew themselves.

▫️After being inspected, the Ukrainian Apache and its crew are convoyed to the Yeysk port.

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🇺🇦Kiev regime has not abandoned its attempts to evacuate the leaders of Azov nationalist regiment and foreign mercenaries from Mariupol

▫️Previous actions to evacuate them by helicopter have failed.

▫️On the evening of April 8, the Kiev regime made another unsuccessful attempt to evacuate the Ukrainian Nazi leaders by sea.

▫️The Ukrainian Apache, a Maltese-flagged dry-cargo ship assigned to the Maltese port of Valetta, was sailing in a caravan of ships from the Gulf of Taganrog to the Kerch Strait in the nighttime.

▫️At 22:38 Moscow time, 30 km southeast of Mariupol, the dry-cargo ship suddenly changed its course and attempted to break through to the Mariupol seaport blocked from the sea by the Black Sea Fleet.

▫️The Ukrainian dry-cargo ship did not respond to Russian border guards' demands to contact them through the international channel and continued heading in the direction of Mariupol port.

▫️Warning artillery firing by two border patrol ships along the vessel's course did not cause the dry cargo ship to change course or slow down.

▫️While heading towards Mariupol port, the ship was engaged in radio communication, transmitting the messages "I am 'Maniac', coming for you". At the same time, signal fires were observed on the shore.

▫️To block the movement of the intruder vessel, from 22.53 to 23.30, the Black Sea Fleet and the border patrol ships opened artillery fire on the Apache dry-cargo ship.

▫️A direct hit caused a fire in the stern of the ship.

▫️The Ukrainian dry-cargo ship then went adrift, the crew got in touch with the border ships with a request to cease fire and confirmed their readiness to comply with all the demands of the Russian sailors.

▫️No crew members on the ship were injured as a result of the firing. The fire was extinguished by the ship's crew themselves.

▫️After being inspected, the Ukrainian Apache and its crew are convoyed to the Yeysk port.

📑 Full text of the Russian Defence Ministry Briefing

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