Ukraine: Moscow announces sending 80,000 soldiers to the front. Putin: New weapons for the ground forces – Europe

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin that the partial mobilization of Ukraine has ended. TASS reports. More than 80,000 Russians were called to arms as part of the partial mobilization and were sent to the front after their training. During his meeting with Defense Minister Shoigu, President Putin said that Everything must be done to improve the development of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in a short time. “I thank everyone who participated in this great work,” the Russian president said, commenting on the end of the partial mobilization. TASS quoted Putin as saying that at first there were “problems and difficulties, possibly inevitable” because “it has been a long time since such operations did not happen” in Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin announces “new weapons for the ground forces that prove they are good at work”. Interfax reports. For Putin, “the most important tasks at the moment are: equipment, training, cohesion of enslaved citizens.”

Four civilians were killed and nine wounded in Russian shelling during the past 24 hours in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, announced the head of the regional military administration Pavlo Kirilenko, as reported by Ukrinform. “The Russians killed four civilians: three in Bakhmut and one in Svyatohersk,” Kirilenko wrote. Law enforcement officers also found five bodies of civilians killed in the village of Shandriholov during the Russian occupation.

Russian bombing of a city NikopolWhich is located in front of the nuclear power plant ZaporizhiaThey were damaged early in the morning power lines Dozens of housing units. Missiles also hit Nikopolska, Maranitska and Chervonohrevska in the Dnipropetrovsk Territory. This was stated by Governor Valentin Reznichenko, as reported by the Kyiv Independent newspaper. At night, Russian forces fired S-300 missiles at a city in the south of the country Mykolaivin particular against the water pipeline: There is destruction and damage, a civilian was injured, the head of the regional military administration Vitaly Kim said on Telegram, Ukrinform reported.

Steinmeier’s speech: ‘You failed me too’
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine represented “the final and bitter failure of years of political endeavors, including my own, to avert this terrible moment.” The German president said this in an address to the nation Steinmeier. “Every one of you remembers February 24. Me too. The screaming of sirens and black smoke over Kyiv, and the terrible images of that morning covered my skin.” In the past, Steinmeier was very open about relations with Moscow, but since the invasion of Ukraine he has repeatedly condemned Russia’s “brutal aggression”, which he describes today as a “historic turning point” toward darker and more difficult times.

Alarm over deportation of Ukrainian children
mayor Melitopol Ivan Fedorov said in a comment to “Noviny Briazovia” that the Russian occupation forces are also taking children from the occupied part of the Zaporizhia region: “Today the deportation of our children is very urgent. We already have more than 300 people. Children were taken from Energodar, Kamyanka and Vodian under the pretext of vacation in Krasnodar, Russia, and they were not sent back. They should have been sent back a week ago, but this week they came to their parents and said: “Give us winter clothes because they are not coming back at the moment.”

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov He confirmed by message on Telegram that in recent days one of his units ended up under Ukrainian artillery fire in the southern Kherson region, reporting deaths and injuries: “23 soldiers were killed and 58 wounded. Four of them remained in poor condition. Wounded. Yes, there were losses Great from our side overnight, but Chechens are engaged in jihad. And if they are destined to fall into a holy war, then this is a great honor and joy for every true Muslim. We all dream that he will die in the way of God. “

Since the beginning of the invasion, the Russian Federation has carried out 4,500 missile attacks on Ukraine and more than 8,000 air strikes. The chief said that Volodymyr Zelensky In his video speech, which was recorded on the street near the wreckage of an enemy drone. According to the president, 665,000 people from 70 countries have made charitable contributions on the UNITED24 platform alone. Unite reports.