Briefings by Russian Defence Ministry
#ロシア軍 will continue special military operations in Ukraine until the set goals are achieved.
The Ukrainian side is using civilians as human shields in military conflicts.
Defense Minister Shoigu:
The main task is to protect Russia from the military threat posed by Western countries
Russian forces’ special military operation until the goals are achieved.
Western countries are trying to use the Ukrainian people in the fight against Russia. Ukraine uses civilians as human shields, also uses multiple rocket launchers, large-caliber weapons and mortars.
Russian army isn’t occupying Ukrainian territory, but taking all measures to preserve the lives and safety of civilians – strikes only carried out on military facilities and exclusively with high-precision weapons
Ukrainian army is stationed in the courtyards of residential buildings, near schools and kindergartens
· Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry spokesperson Embassy Of the Russian federation in Japan
The grouping of troops of Lugansk People’s Republic, with fire support from the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, advanced from the beginning of the operation to a depth of up to 61 kilometers and blocked Svatovo village.
Novoborovoe, Barykino, Klimovka, Bulgakovka, Golubovka settlements were taken under control.The troops of Donetsk People’s Republic conducted successful offensive operations, taking control of Ivanovka, Talakovka, Starodubovka, Berestovoe and Belotserkovka settlements. The depth of the group’s advance over the past day was 19 kilometers.
Advance detachments of the People’s Militia of the DPR reached the administrative border of the Donetsk region and joined the military units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which took control of the regions of Ukraine along the coast of the Sea of Azov.The exit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the Sea of Azov is completely blocked
.On March 1, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a strike with long-range air and sea-based high-precision weapons. Two airfields and three air defence radar posts were hit. The strikes excluded the defeat of civilian infrastructure and residential buildings.
In total, since the beginning of the operation, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have hit 1,325 objects of the military infrastructure of Ukraine.
Of these: 43 command posts and a communication centres of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.395 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 59 multiple rocket launch systems, 179 field artillery and mortars, 286 units of special military vehicles were destroyed.———