❗️Neo-Nazis blocked more than 450 civilians, including children, women with babies, the elderly and seriously ill people connected to life-support machines, cancer patients and insulin-dependent people, in Nikolo-Vasilevskoe monastery in Volnovakha district of the Donetsk People's Republic.

▫️The monastery and the only road leading to it are under constant fire from mortars and heavy machine guns, and there are dead and injured.

▫️It is almost impossible to bring vital medicines, food and other essentials to the monastery, or to evacuate people.

▫️The methods and forms of ruthless treatment of civilians, proven by the Nazi executioners during the Great Patriotic War, are now being used with particular sophistication by Ukrainian neo-Nazis.

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▫️ 1,026 Ukrainian servicemen of the 36th Marine Brigade have voluntarily laid down their arms and surrendered as a result of a successful offensive by the Russian Armed Forces and Donetsk People's Republic militia units. Among them, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have surrendered 162 officers, as well as 47 servicewomen.

❗️ The Russian Defence Ministry sees attempts of sabotage and strikes by Ukrainian forces against facilities on Russian Federation territory. If such cases continue, the Russian Armed Forces will strike at decision-making centres, including in Kiev, from which the Russian army has so far refrained.

▫️ A commercial seaport in Mariupol city has been completely liberated from Nazi Azov fighters. All hostages held by the Nazis on the ships in the port, including foreigners, have been released. The remnants of the Ukrainian and Azov Nazi units in the city have been blockaded and deprived of the opportunity to break out of their encirclement.

📹 The Russian Defence Ministry has published footage of army aviation crews destroying Ukrainian air defence positions and armoured vehicles and destroying a battery of 152 mm D-20 howitzers of the Ukrainian armed forces. Video of Russian military engineers securing spring sowing operations in Kharkov Region has also been published.

❗️ Neo-Nazis blocked more than 450 civilians, including children, women with babies, the elderly and seriously ill people connected to life-support machines, cancer patients and insulin-dependent people, in Nikolo-Vasilevskoe monastery in Volnovakha district of the Donetsk People's Republic.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry (video) (April 13, 2022)

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💥 Shturm-S self-propelled anti-tank missile systems and Fagot portable anti-tank missile systems during the special military operation

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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, high-precision weapons destroyed 12 enemy assets. Among them: 2 depots of missile and artillery armament of the Ukrainian troops in Velikaya Mikhailovka and Bogatyr; 1 Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet, 1 Mi-8 helicopter and 1 Bayraktar TB-2 unmanned aerial vehicle at Dnepr airfield.

✈️💥Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 48 military assets of Ukraine. Among them: 2 command posts, 1 radar station, 2 positions of multiple rocket launchers, 1 artillery battery, 6 depots of missile and artillery weapons, as well as 48 areas of concentration of Ukrainian weapons and military equipment.

💥Missile troops and artiller hit 770 assets, including 9 command posts, 101 strong points, 548 areas of concentration of Ukrainian manpower and weapons, 110 artillery firing positions, 1 S-300 anti-aircraft missile system and 1 ammunition depot.

📊In total, 131 aircraft and 104 helicopters, 245 anti-aircraft missile systems S-300, Buk-M1, Osa AKM, 448 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,179 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 248 multiple launch rocket systems, 944 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,088 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.

▫️During the operation to liberate Mariupol city, the total number of servicemen of the 36th Marine Brigade who voluntarily surrendered was 1,160. Among them: 176 officers and 47 servicewomen.

▫️During the operation to liberate Mariupol city, another 134 Ukrainian servicemen, including 14 officers, voluntarily surrendered overnight.

▫️A total of 1,160 Ukrainian servicemen of the 36th Marine Brigade voluntarily surrendered. Among them 176 officers.

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

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🇷🇺Pacific Fleet submarines launch Kalibr cruise missiles at mock enemy ships

▫️Two diesel-electric submarines Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Volkhov launched cruise missiles from an underwater position in the waters of the Sea of Japan.

▫️The cruise missiles successfully hit a target - a special marine shield imitating a surface ship of a mock enemy.

▫️More than 15 warships and support vessels, as well as naval aviation aircraft of the Pacific Fleet, took part in the exercise.

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🚁Ka-52 attack helicopter crews destroying AFU military equipment

💥Army aviation pilots acted in pairs and struck with unguided missiles at detected firing position of AFU artillery battalion camouflaged in a wooded area. All targets were destroyed.

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🚛 Russian servicemen deliver more than 30 tons of humanitarian cargo for residents of Kharkov region

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​​🇷🇺CSTO Military Committee meeting chaired by Chief of General Staff of Russian Armed Forces held in Moscow

▫️The meeting took place via videoconference.

▫️Participants exchanged views on the military-political situation in regions of collective security and agreed to coordinate joint actions to neutralise threats to military security.

▫️The implementation of proposals made by the CSTO defence ministers on January 13, 2022 during an extraordinary meeting of the CSTO defence ministers' council was determined as regards the improvement of crisis response mechanism and organization of the use of the Organization's collective forces.

▫️During the meeting the participants:

➡️considered joint operational and combat training activities in 2022;

➡️identified areas for further work to improve the organization of international flights of the armed forces of the CSTO countries;

➡️assessed the activities of Combat Service Support Academy named after Khrulev as a base organization for training military personnel for CSTO member states in logistics specialties.

▫️In conclusion, it was noted that the outcome of the meeting of the Military Committee will contribute to strengthening the system of collective security and maintaining regular security.

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