New episode is out now (and it's free). We talk about the "Moskva" (please note that when we recorded the episode, information about the ship sinking hadn't come out yet), the end phase of the siege of Mariupol, we "fact-check" some of the most ridiculous claims & rumors, we talk about shady media personalities like Arestovych, the month-long battle in Donbass that barely anyone mentions & signs of the war turning to a new, harsher phase.

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From this morning's Russian MOD briefing:

- The Illich Steel and Iron Works in Mariupol are under full Russian control (i.e. the northern pocket in Mariupol has been fully liquidated)

- A Ukrainian Su-27 has been shot down in Kharkov oblast

- On the Izyum front in Kharkov oblast, a detachment of up to 30 mercenaries from a Polish PMC was liquidated

- One of the Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters that attacked civilians in Bryansk oblast was shot down by an S-400 in Chernigov oblast

- The number and scale of missile attacks on facilities in Kiev will increase in response to Kiev forces committing acts of terrorism & sabotage on Russian territory

- As a result of the strike on the Zhulyansk Machine-Building Plant "Vizar" the production and repair shops of SAMs and anti-ship missiles were destroyed

What's left of the "Vizar" factory near Kiev that produced, among other things, components for the S-300 and Neptune systems. https://news.1rj.ru/str/rustroyka1945/1190

Russian missile flying somewhere https://news.1rj.ru/str/voenacher/15361

I received a Telegram message from what looks like a bot inviting me to a protest against the DPR's mobilization in Volnovakha. Before the Ukrainian Tochka-U hit downtown Donetsk a month ago, people were getting similar messages about a protest in the city center.

The Russian MOD claims in its evening briefing that the AFU tried to attack the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant with missiles today, but that both Tochka-Us were intercepted. This facility regulates the flow of the Dnepr & supplies power to Kherson oblast as well as water to Southern Ukraine & Crimea.

Ukrop POW: “I’m not a Nazi”

Call sign Zyat raises the Somalia Battalion's flag on top of the police headquarters, says "Mariupol is ours". https://news.1rj.ru/str/wargonzo/6608

The mayor of Lozovaya calls on the city's population to evacuate by train. Yesterday, the Russian MOD claimed that the Ukrainian authorities are planning a false flag provocation in Lozovaya & want to hit the refugees at the train station with a Tochka-U missile. https://news.1rj.ru/str/readovkanews/31102

Commander in chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov and the command of the Black Sea Fleet met with the crew of the "Moskva" in Sevastopol. They will continue serving on other vessels in the Russian Navy. Admiral Yevmenov also promised to keep the traditions of the "Moskva" alive. https://news.1rj.ru/str/boris_rozhin/42827

Briefing by Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov as of 7 p.m. on April 16, 2022 on the progress of the special operation in Ukraine

During the day, high-precision airborne missiles hit 15 enemy targets.

Among them: six places of concentration of Ukrainian military equipment and seven strongpoints of Ukrainian troops were destroyed in the areas of BARVENKOVO, RUBEZHNOYE, POPASNAYA, NOVOZVANOVKA, KRASNOARMEYSK, SELIDOVO and NOVOBAKHMUTOVKA settlements.

As a result of the strikes, more than 320 Ukrainian servicemen were killed and wounded, 23 armored vehicles and seven vehicles of various purposes were destroyed.

Operational-tactical aviation destroyed 67 areas of concentration of personnel and Ukrainian military equipment during the day.

Missile forces hit 317 military facilities, including: 274 strongholds and areas of concentration of enemy manpower, 24 command posts and two field fuel storage facilities of Ukrainian troops.

Russian air defenses near ODESSA shot down a Ukrainian military transport aircraft delivering a large shipment of weapons supplied to Ukraine by Western countries.

Two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down over the settlements of LOZOVA and VESELAYA.

A total of 134 aircraft, 460 unmanned aerial vehicles, 246 surface-to-air missile systems, 2,269 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 252 multiple rocket launchers, 987 field artillery guns and mortars, and 2,158 special military vehicles have been destroyed since the start of the special military operation.

The entire city territory of MARIUPOL has been completely cleared of fighters of the Nazi formation Azov, foreign mercenaries and Ukrainian troops.

The remnants of the Ukrainian group are now completely blocked on the territory of the Azovstal metallurgical plant. Their only chance to save their lives is to voluntarily lay down their arms and surrender.

Let me remind you that at the time of its encirclement on March 11, Ukrainian forces in Mariupol: the 36th Independent Marines Brigade, the 109th Territorial Defense Brigade, the 503rd Independent Marines Battalion, a company of the 53rd Independent Mechanized Brigade, units of the 17th Antitank Brigade, the Nazi Azov, Aidar and Right Sector groups, police and state border guard units, as well as foreign mercenaries.

The total number of this grouping was about 8,100 people.

During the liberation of Mariupol, 1,464 Ukrainian servicemen already surrendered. The number of those surrendering is increasing daily. This includes those who escaped from the territory of Azovstal. According to their accounts, the total number of Ukrainian servicemen, Nazis and foreign mercenaries who took refuge at Azovstal does not exceed 2,500.

Thereby, as of April 16, the losses of the Ukrainian grouping in MARIUPOL alone amounted to more than 4,000 people.

Therefore, Zelensky's recent statements to the Western media that the irrecoverable losses of the Ukrainian military during the operation allegedly amount to 2.5-3 thousand is a common lie for him.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has reliable data on the true losses of the Ukrainian army, National Guard and arriving foreign mercenaries, which Zelensky is afraid to tell the people of Ukraine.

As of today, Ukrainian irretrievable losses amount to 23,367.

We will soon publish separate data from Ukrainian documents about their losses, revealing the place of death and burial sites of the dead.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/rian_ru/158998

Kharkov being hit again https://news.1rj.ru/str/truexanewsua/41711

Azov unironically had a pagan idol at one of their bases near Mariupol. https://news.1rj.ru/str/mig41/16527

Collection of anti-tank weapons captured by the Lugansk People's Militia during the ongoing battle for Popasnaya. https://news.1rj.ru/str/anna_news/28551