🇷🇺🇺🇦Briefing by the Russian Defence Ministry

▫️The grouping of troops of the #Donetsk People's Republic, developing an offensive, took full control of Stepnoye and is pursuing the retreating units of the 53rd separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Up to 25 personnel, 2 tanks, 2 infantry fighting vehicles and 5 all-terrain vehicles were destroyed.

▫️In Novoselovka Vtoraya direction, the units of the Donetsk Republic have advanced to a depth of 3 kilometers, crossed the Kamenka - Verkhnetoretskoye road, and are fighting with the 1st airborne battalion of the 25th separate airborne brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

▫️During the night, most of #Verkhnetoretskoye settlement was taken under control, where battles are being fought with the 2nd battalion of the same brigade. In total, up to 40 personnel, 5 armored personnel carriers and 4 all-terrain vehicles were destroyed there. Offensive actions continue.

▫️In the evening of March 19 and in the morning of March 20, high-precision long-range weapons attacked Ukraine's military infrastructure.

▫️From the waters of the Black Sea, Kalibr sea-based cruise missiles destroyed workshops for repairing Ukrainian armored vehicles damaged in combat at the Nezhinsky repair plant.

▫️A large fuel storage base of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near #Konstantinovka in #Nikolaev region was destroyed by Kalibr sea-based cruise missiles from the waters of the Caspian Sea, as well as by Kinzhal aviation missile systems with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles from the airspace over Crimea territory. This is the main base for supply Ukrainian armored vehicles with fuel in combat areas in the south of Ukraine.

▫️High-precision air-launched missiles struck the training centre of the Ukrainian special operations forces near Ovruch settlement of Zhytomir region, where foreign mercenaries who arrived in Ukraine were based. More than 100 special operations forces servicemen and mercenaries were killed.

✈️💥During the night, operational-tactical and army aviation hit 62 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Among them: 3 command posts, 1 multiple launch rocket system, 2 missile and artillery weapons depots and 1 fuel depot, as well as 52 areas of military equipment concentration.

💥Russian air defence means shot down in the air: 1 Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force near Kohannoye, 6 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, including 1 Bayraktar TB-2 near Shibennoye, as well as 1 Ukrainian Tochka-U tactical ballistic missile near Chistovodovka north of Izyum.

💥Russian artillery destroyed 6 Ukrainian Bukovel mobile electronic warfare systems.

💥In total, 207 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,467 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 148 multiple launch rocket systems, 573 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 1,262 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.

#Russia 🇷🇺 #Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Briefing

Video shows Rocket attacks in #Nikolaev. Allegedly targeting Ukrainian troops which have taken over a shipbuilding plan.

Video footage emerges online reportedly showing Ukrainian Soldiers filming a Russian Kalibr strike near #Nikolaev

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A reported cruise missile strike on the building of the #Nikolaev administration.

Video shows an explosion in #Nikolaev. recorded by a surveillance camera

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Enormous explosion in #Nikolaev, The Ukraine. 🇺🇦

Rumours abound that the governor of Nikolaev “asked for a radiation scan” because due to the magnitude, he believed it was nuclear in origin. (It isn’t, but that’s what the governor thought.)

Potentially some Russian version of the American Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb?

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🇷🇺#Russia

Missile strikes on the positions of the Armed Forces of the Ukraine near #Nikolaev

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From the 🇷🇺 #Russia MFA

‼️ 🇺🇦 Ukrainian nationalists continue to use civilian infrastructure for military purposes on a daily basis.

in Avdeevka, #DPR, #Ukrops have set up a stronghold in kindergarten No. 11 (Tsentralniy Prospekt) and placed military equipment, including artillery and MLRS, near the school, from which they systematically shell nearby populated areas.

▫️In Bereznegovatoye, #Nikolaev Region, #Ukrops are stationed in the cultural centre and the paths to the building have been mined, without warning the local population.

▫️In Krivoi Rog, #Dnepropetrovsk Region, Ukrops have setup a stronghold and a warehouse of missile and artillery weapons in school No 125 (5th Zarechniy Microdistrict), without evacuating nearby residents.

- Russian delegation to UNESCO

🇺🇦 #TheUkraine

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