📌 The Russian Defence Ministry has briefed the press on the Ukraine op:

▪️ High-precision air-based weapons destroyed 16 military assets in Ukraine overnight;

▪️ Russian air defence systems have shot down one Ukrainian drone;

▪️ Operational-tactical aviation hit 108 areas of concentration of Ukrainian troops and military equipment;

▪️ Russian Army aviation destroyed eight Ukrainian tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles;

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces destroyed four Ukrainian arms depots, military equipment, as well as three areas of concentration of enemy fighters using Iskander missiles;

▪️ Air defence units of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down two Ukrainian MiG-29 fighters near Izyum and one Su-25 near Avdeevka;

▪️ In total, 139 aircraft, 483 drones, 250 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,326 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 254 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,004 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 2,184 special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been destroyed during the operation

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⚡️ Turkey continues efforts to broker Russia-Ukraine peace talks, Erdogan's spokesman says

❗️ Russian MoD discloses data with documented losses of Ukrainian forces

❗️ Kiev plans to shell churches on Orthodox Easter to accuse Russian forces of war crimes, Russian MoD says

⚡️ The Russian MoD has published footage of the aftermath of a Ukrainian Tochka-U strike on a farm enterprise in the Zaporozhye region

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⚡️ Kremlin believes information about countries that agreed to pay for Russian gas in rubles unlikely to be published

📌 What else has the Russian MoD revealed about the Orthodox Easter provocation prepared by Kiev?

▪️ The provocations are planned for Orthodox Easter night (from April 23 to April 24);

▪️ Kiev provocations with numerous victims are being prepared in the Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Odessa, Sumy and Kharkov regions with the support of a number of Western countries;

▪️ Over 70 mobile groups were formed from the personnel of Ukrainian national battalions to conduct provocations, using vans and off-road vehicles equipped with mortars (so-called "wandering mortars");

▪️ Kiev set to bring Western correspondents so that they could spread fake news about "Russian atrocities";

▪️ Russia has warned countries of the so-called "civilised West" led by the US that it has evidence of the Kiev regime's upcoming crimes;

▪️ The Russian MoD has called on the UN, OSCE, ICRC, and other international organisations to prevent these "inhumane" provocations

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The Russian Defence Ministry has published footage of an Iskander missile being launched towards the command post of a Ukrainian troops mechanised brigade

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❗Japan, Switzerland reportedly agree to pursue harsh sanctions against Russia

💬Russia's ambassador in Washington, Anatoly Antonov, has accused the US of stealing Russian money in a response to the freezing of the Central Bank of Russia's assets in the West:
"You steal our money. We decided to keep our money, our savings [in US and European banks]. How is it possible to trust you?" he said in an interview.

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The Bunny saved Biden from having to answer questions about Pakistan and Afghanistan. Happy Easter! 🐰

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⚡️Russian strike wipes out logistics base near Lvov containing large amounts of Western arms: MoD

The Russian Defence Ministry briefing on the military operation in Ukraine:

▪A logistics centre with shipments of foreign weapons that had been delivered to Ukraine by the US and its European allies has been destroyed near Lvov with high-precision air-based missiles;

▪A large ammunition depot in Kiev Region has been destroyed;

▪The Russian Aerospace Forces has hit 84 Ukrainian military assets;

▪16 military assets of Ukraine were hit by high-precision air-based missiles;

▪Russia's missile troops and artillery have hit 331 military assets (9 command posts, 1 missile and artillery weapons depot, as well as 315 areas where enemy troops were concentrated);

▪Up to 120 nationalists and 9 units of military equipment were eliminated near the Novotoshkovskaya settlment as a result of the strike

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