The Crimean Canal was filled again. The Ukrainian authorities have been blockading the peninsula for 8 years. But now blockade is lifted completely.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Near Izyum, in the coming days, apparently, one of the fateful battles of the war will unfold. The parties are actively pulling up forces, the most active work of artillery, tanks, and DRGs is underway.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Briefing by the Russian Defence Ministry

✔️ Units of the Russian Armed Forces broke through the defence of Aidar battalion and advanced 5 kilometers, reached Shakhterskoye-Novoukrainka line.

✔️ Up to 30 militants, 1 tank, 1 infantry fighting vehicle and 4 all-terrain vehicles were destroyed. Currently, they are fighting with units of the 54th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, operating in the second echelon.

✔️ The grouping of People's Militia of the Donetsk Republic destroyed up to a company of the 53rd separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, completely took control of Taramchuk and pursues the retreating enemy.

✔️ The grouping of troops of the Lugansk People's Republic has reached the northern outskirts of Lisichansk city and is eliminating disparate groups of nationalists who retreated from Rubezhnoye city.

✔️ Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 59 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Among them: 3 command posts, 2 multiple launch rocket systems and 2 radar stations near Bogodukhov city, 2 missile and artillery weapons depots, as well as 51 areas of military equipment concentration.

❗️ IN TOTAL, 201 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,443 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 147 multiple launch rocket systems, 564 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,248 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.

🇺🇦 An employee of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) Main Directorate for Donetsk and Lugansk regions voluntarily surrendered to Russian servicemen.

He provided detailed information regarding all persons involved in conducting sabotage activities on the territory of Donbass.

In addition, the SSU officer reported on terrorist acts planned by militants of the nationalist Azov battalion in Lvov against employees and facilities of diplomatic missions of the United States and other Western countries.

Interrogation of a captured soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Ukrainian militant reported that he was sent to the war zone, to Shevelevka (Kharkiv region). There he was at a checkpoint and made sure that no one from the Russian Federation passed.

He also told about the search for food in abandoned houses and cases of desertion of the Ukrainian army. “On the March, 8 there was a battle in the village Gusarovka. Five people fled, left their Kalashnikov guns, their uniforms, dressed up in civilian clothes and escaped.”

🇷🇺 Russian servicemen helped residents of Melitopol in search and return of personal cars.

These cars were seized by territorial defenсe units formed by the Ukrainian authorities.

Representatives of the Ukrainian military painted identification marks on the cars, which Russian servicemen use to mark their military equipment. These vehicles could be used for provocations, for sabotage against civilians and the Russian military personnel or to escape from the zone of the special military operation.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 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.

✔️ 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.

✔️ 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.

🇺🇦 The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) has stopped the activity of a number of political parties, including Opposition Platform – For Life, for the period of martial law, according to Vladymyr Zelensky.

🇺🇸 Former USMC officer Scott Ritter about Russian special operation

I’ve studied it for 35 years: their doctrine, their equipment, their tactics, their operations. What we're seeing here is a multi-axis strategy that seeks to fix enemy forces in place, destroy enemy command and control surround enemy forces and seize strategic points of interest.

The rate of advance of Russian troops is faster than the rated advance of the German blitz in World War 2. It's the fastest advance in history.

Here that the Ukrainian Army you know consists of 260 000 regular forces trained and equipped to NATO standards and supported by 200-300,000 reservists and auxiliaries. And so the Russians came in with 190-200,000 troops facing off against 600,000 troops.

Normally in a military campaign, you want a three-to-one advantage on the offensive side. The Russians are coming in literally with a 1-to-3, or 1-to-4 disadvantage. But nevertheless, the losses for the last week show 1 to 6 in favor of the Russians.

🇺🇸 Former USMC officer Scott Ritter about Russian special operation

The root causes of this conflict is NATO's effort to expand further eastward and Ukraine’s suicidal insistence that this is what they want even though they and NATO were confronted over the course of 15 years.

This is concerted policy from Russia that has been articulated in great detail since Vladimir Putin addressed the Munich security conference in 2007.

People are saying this is because Putin woke up with a migraine and decided to invade. No! This is because NATO and Ukraine conspired together to create the conditions for a War.

Коренными причинами этого конфликта являются усилия НАТО по дальнейшему расширению на восток и самоубийственное упорство Украины в том, что они хотят именно этого, несмотря на то, что они и НАТО противостояли друг другу в течение 15 лет.

Люди говорят, что это потому, что Путин проснулся с мигренью и решил вторгнуться. Нет! Это потому, что НАТО и Украина объединились, чтобы создать условия для войны.

🇺🇸 Former USMC officer Scott Ritter about Russian special operation

The one place that the Russians are failing right now is the propaganda aspect. I'm not saying that I want the Russians to lie, but it would be nice if the Russians put some perspective to what they're facing.

The CIA is deeply embedded with Ukrainian ministry of information and is responsible for running what's called an information operation, this is a covert or political action operation that's been sanctioned by the president of United States. The reason why it has to be sanctioned is the CIA normally isn't allowed to manipulate information in a manner that affects the American public meaning they can tell lies and they do this very effectively, but they can't tell lies in a way that affects how the Americans view a subject.

They're doing that right now – they're running an information operation very sophisticated that's designed to achieve a political result in Russia. Their goal is actually regime change.

The fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine used the garage of one of the residents of Volnovakha as a military warehouse

The video shows the garage of one of the residents of Volnovakha, which Ukrainian soldiers used as a military warehouse, while the owner was in his house hiding from shelling. Retreating, the Armed Forces of Ukraine left some kind of “souvenirs” in the garage – 7-62-mm rifle-machine-gun cartridges and the NLAW anti-tank weapon.

“Everything was broken down, the car was taken away, then the DPR, it seems, recaptured it, I was in the house all this time,” comments a resident of Volnovakha.

The man also told how Ukrainian equipment shelled Volnovakha from 5 a m until the late evening.

The DPR serviceman added, relying on the words of local residents: “Ukrainian soldiers asserted that if they were forced to retreat, they would not leave it like that, they would raze the territory to the ground.”