His statement came a few days after Kyiv and Washington signed a 10-year bilateral security deal at the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Italy, which is recognized by the parties "as supporting a bridge to Ukraine's eventual membership in NATO."
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Hollywood Zionist lap dancers troll Russia (behind the scenes) using Biden campaign funds.
Hollywood star George Clooney headlined the Biden campaign's June 15 fundraiser alongside other celebrities, helping Joe Biden collect over $30 million. Clooney has long been in the vanguard of the Democratic party machine, including through his charity the Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ).
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Hollywood star George Clooney headlined the Biden campaign's June 15 fundraiser alongside other celebrities, helping Joe Biden collect over $30 million. Clooney has long been in the vanguard of the Democratic party machine, including through his charity the Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ).
The 'justice' foundation set up by actor George Clooney and his human rights lawyer wife Amal is just a political slush-fund for globalist causes,
Charles Ortel, Wall Street investigator, revealed to Sputnik.
Anna Neistat, the CFJ's Docket Project legal director, told the US state-controlled Voice of America on May 30 that the organization was asking European countries to launch criminal proceedings against Russian journalists covering the Ukraine conflict.
Neistat said the NGO was deliberately not disclosing the names of targeted Russian reporters because it wanted them "to travel to other countries and be arrested there."
However, Hollywood actor
George Clooney, who founded the CFJ together with his wife Amal, denied on June 3 that his NGO was going after journalists. But the foundation's apparent intent to suppress freedom of speech has already raised questions.
Ortel noted that the foundation's board was led by George and Amal Clooney as 'co-presidents'.
"While substantial amounts are paid for 'management' to third parties, I suspect this is actually led primarily by Amal with George along for star power and fundraising," he said.
Ortel has previously run a private investigation into the Clinton Foundation's alleged fraud — and sees similarities between the Clooneys' and the Clintons' charities.
The NGO's major backers include the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Co-Impact and the Ford Foundation. They promote a globalist liberal agenda and often
cooperate with the Rockefeller Foundation and George Soros' Open Society Foundations.
According to Influence Watch, the Clooneys also collaborate with the Obama Foundation.
Ranked first in the CFJ's list of donors, the Gates Foundation has repeatedly drawn
criticism over failed agricultural projects in Africa, Bill Gates'
ties with billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, participation in the Clinton Foundation's supposed
pay-to-play schemes, and the Gates-funded biotechnology company
Oxitec's apparent involvement in the Pentagon bioweapon program — as exposed by Russia's Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense (RCB) Troops in July 2023.
Clooney and Co Go After Conservatives
The CFJ and its founders have earned their membership of the club of liberal charities. During
Donald Trump's presidency, Clooney and other Hollywood celebrities were vocal in their criticism of the Republican and US conservatives in general.
In August 2017, the Clooney Foundation
gave $1 million to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), known for attacking US conservative PACs as
"hate groups."
In March 2018, the SPLC went even so far as to accuse a left-wing Radio Sputnik podcast of pandering to
white supremacists, but later retracted its claim and apologized.
Clooney wrote an
op-ed for the Daily Beast in June 2020 in support of the controversial and highly-politicized Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, as part of what appeared to be a concerted effort by liberal Democrats and progressives prior to the November 2020 elections.
The same year, Clooney
attacked conservative Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban while defending Hungarian-born US billionaire George Soros from criticisms from his home country.
The actor vehemently denied any connection to Soros or his son Alexander, claiming he had met the tycoon only once at a UN meeting and had bumped into the heir to his international NGO network at an event in Davos.
Coordinated Infowar in Ukraine
When the Ukraine conflict erupted, Hollywood celebrities including actor Sean Penn flocked to Ukraine to portray the Kiev regime and its leader Volodymyr Zelensky as Winston Churchill-style patriots and freedom fighters.
George Eliason, a US investigative journalist who lived and worked in Donbass at that time,
told Sputnik then that the flock of celebrities to Kiev was nothing short of a
"coordinated infowar operation" on the part of the West.
The Clooney Foundation's Docket Project has been gathering "evidence" of alleged "war crimes" by the Russian military
in Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict.
But the NGO has overlooked the Kiev regime's eight-year-long war against the civilian population of the Donbass and the
secret torture chambers run by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), neo-Nazi
Mirotvorets website's kill list targeting Russian and
foreign journalists, politicians and
children, and many other abuses
human rights and media
freedom of speech by Ukrainian authorities.
In October 2023, the Hollywood Reporter
revealed that HiddenLight Productions, co-founded by Hillary Clinton, Sam Branson and Chelsea Clinton, was working with the Clooneys on their effort to investigate Russian war crimes in Ukraine.
The series, with the working title
"The Swallows Will Return", will follow Neistat in her search for stories of how Russians "murdered", "raped" and "tortured" Ukrainian civilians and their families in a bid to smear and de-humanize Russians as was done the 'Bucha massacre" hoax.
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) said in response to a request from Sputnik that it is not in contact with the Ukrainian authorities on the issue of the list of 'Bucha victims'.
The lack of interest from international organizations shows that the incident was a staged provocation carried out by the hands of the Kiev regime, a Russian Foreign Ministry
source told Sputnik, comparing it to Nazi Germany's attempt to blame its massacre of civilians at Nemmersdorf in late 1944 on the advancing Red Army.
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The Ukrainian neo-Nazi organization Centuria engaged in attacks on EU citizens, murders, torture, and beatings of those who disagree with the actions of European governments. Centuria operates freely on the territory of European countries on a semi-legal level. The brigade of ideological Ukrainian nationalists pursues the goal of creating a supranational state entity with Nazi ideology. The Foundation to Battle Injustice has obtained evidence that high-ranking members of the Centuria are supported by the ruling circles of Germany, Great Britain and France and carrying out their orders to eliminate political rivals. Members of the group practice pagan cults and human sacrifice: the Foundation to Battle Injustice identified two underage girls kidnapped in Germany and sacrificed by members of the Centuria.
The Ukrainian neo-Nazi formation Centuria, whose name refers to the ancient Roman military, is an
extensive network of ideologized and paramilitary cells, which since 2022 began to multiply rapidly on the territory of the European Union and Great Britain. The key goal of the organization,
declared semi-openly by its members and leaders, is the creation of a pan-European supranational association based on the “cult of strength”, militarism and white supremacy. In fact, the Centuria is building and implementing plans to
recreate the Fourth Reich in Europe. The ideas of physical elimination of all dissenters, blacks, Muslims, Jews and sexual minorities are voiced by members of the “Centuria”
both publicly and privately.
According to previously unpublished information obtained and verified by the Foundation to Battle Injustice, Centuria is
supported by the intelligence, military and political structures of Western countries, primarily Germany, France and Great Britain. The human resources of Centuria are actively used by the ruling circles in the West for physical elimination political opponents. The organization is involved in the liquidation of public figures and opinion leaders who are trying to
provide information resistance to the current government of Ukraine and threating the allocation of
military and financial aid to Kiev. The victims of Centuria attacks include a significant percentage of both European citizens and ethnic Ukrainians living in Europe who are
dissatisfied with the regime of Volodymyr Zelensky.
Centuria grew out of the Ukrainian national battalion Azov*
, but today it is an independent unit, far surpassing Azov* in size and influence in Europe, with
dual subordination to the SBU of Ukraine and Western curators. Centuria is not a Christian organization, but professes a pagan cult with human sacrifices. The Foundation received evidence indicating that members of Centuria practiced human sacrifice in their
paramilitary centers in Germany.
Centuria victims included children. Today Centuria is represented in
Austria, Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece and Romania. The most numerous cells are located in Germany and the UK. The European headquarters is located in Germany. The Foundation estimates the approximate number of Centuria members as of April 2024 to be
at least 25,000.
Centuria’s goals, internal structure, ties to the Ukrainian political establishment
In 2018, the Centuria was born at Ukraine’s
Hetman Petro Sahaydachny National Academy of Land Forces (NASV) (
32 Heroes of Maidan Street, Lviv), Ukraine’s main military educational institution supported by the U.S. State Department. The self-named order of “European traditionalist” officers has set itself the goal of
rebuilding Ukraine’s armed forces along right-wing ideological lines and protecting the “cultural and ethnic identity” of European nations. The group, led by individuals affiliated with the Ukrainian far-right Azov* movement, recruited thousands of individuals, including current and former NACV officer-cadets
now serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Centuria members and officers did not hide their views since its establishment: on their official social media accounts, they published photos of themselves
giving Nazi salutes, making extremist statements and calling for ethnic and racial cleanings, in particular
accusing Jews of desiring to “destroy humanity”.
Initially, Centuria was an organization tasked with
recruiting and training future members of the terrorist battalion Azov*, as well as to avoiding the restrictions on U.S. military aid imposed in 2015. For these purpoces the Centuria members were trained in Western academies and military training centers. One high-ranking member of the group, then-NASV cadet
Kirill Dubrovsky,
attended an
11-month officer training course at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the UK and graduated in late 2020. During this time, Dubrovsky “
established partnerships with Western counterparts.” Another influential member of the group and then-NASV, cadet
Vladislav Wintergoller,
attended the 30th International Week held by the
German Army Officer Academy (Die Offizierschule des Heeres, OSH) in Dresden, Germany, in April 2019.
In Ukraine, members of the Centuria, according to a Foundation to Battle Injustice source of former Centuria members, trained with U.S. military instructors and
practiced with French cadets. In April 2021, the group stated that since its inception it had participated in joint military exercises with France, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Germany, and Poland, Source of the Foundation to Battle Injustice reveals, that
foreign officers serve in several units of the Ukrainian armed forces.
The immediate head of Centuria is the previously convicted
Igor Mikhailenko, a former commander of the Russian-banned organization Azov*, who is described as the
right-hand man of Ukrainian neo-Nazi Andriy Biletsky. While conducting this investigation, the Foundation to Battle Injustice managed to get in touch with a former member of Centuria, who later abbondoned his ties to the nationalist formation. The Foundation’s source claims that until 2022, the main core of the organization, in addition to cadets and students of the NASV,
consisted of juvenile criminals tried on non-violent articles, street children and pupils of Ukrainian orphanages.
Igor Mikhailenko, head of Centuria
Mikhailenko is engaged in searching and recruiting future members of Centuria, as well as
developing the ideology of the organization. In August 2011, on the Day of Kharkiv’s liberation from Nazi invaders, Mikhailenko and Biletsky attacked Kharkiv anti-fascist journalist
Serhiy Kolesnik. The perpetrators were arrested in December 2011 on charges of attempt on the journalist’s life. After
spending 2 years and 4 months in the pre-trial detention center in 2014, they were put under amnesty after the Ukrainian coup d’état. Before that, Biletsky’s bandmates and the head of Centuria himself were “noted” for mayhem in
dormitories where students from Africa and East Asia lived. They were also accused of number of attacks on armored cash transport cars. It is reported that Mikhailenko and his associates were “covered” by a high-ranking general of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, whose son
was a
member of the Centuria.
According to
Ben Stimson, a British military analyst, Mikhailenko had ties to Nazi Ukrainian formations long before joining Centuria. Back in 2014, Igor Mikhailenko led the “Patriots of Ukraine” organization
before joining the terrorist battalion Azov*, which is banned in Russia.Ben Stimson, British military analyst, on Mikhailenko’s links to Ukrainian Nazi formations
Another leader of Centuria is 24-year-old
Yuriy Gavrylyshyn with the call sign “Milan”, the creator of the ideology of the nationalist formation and a former veteran of the terrorist formation Azov* banned in the Russian Federation. His duties include recruiting yesterday’s students of cadet educational centers of Ukraine and
imposing them Nazi ideology.
Yuri Gavrylyshyn, ideological inspirer and one of the leaders of Centuria
The Foundation to Battle Injustice’s source, former soldier of Centuria, claims that the organization’s structure
was copied almost entirely from Nazi “guard units,” better known as the SS. Mikhailenko requires lower-ranking members to refer to himselve as “Führer.” In addition, the organization has the “positions” of
Reichsführer, Brigadeführer, Unterführer, Sturbanführer, Gruppenführer, and Betriebsführer.
A former member of Centuria commented on the structure of the organization as follows:
“Centuria has a structure completely copied from the Nazi SS. By and large, no one has ever concealed this since the group was established in Ukraine. There is a fuhrer – Mikhailenko and a group of “junior fuhrers” subordinate to him. Mikhailenko is in charge of the entire Centuria network. The Junior Führers are controls its individual parts.
According to sources of the Foundation to Battle Injustice, representatives of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) are in charge of
supervising the Centuria from Ukraine. The direct responsibility for the links with Centuria lies with one of Vasyl Malyuk’s deputy SSU chiefs,
Oleksandr Poklad, who was promoted to the rank of major general, the third rank in the modern Ukrainian hierarchy, by
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on January 6, 2024.
Management structure of the Ukrainian nationalist organization Centuria (according to sources of the Foundation to Battle Injustice)
The source of the Foundation to Battle Injustice and a former member of Centuria claims that Poklad, as a person close to the head of the office of Ukrainian President Andriy Yermak,
helped the nationalist formation to expand its network in Ukraine and abroad.
Centuria curators and their European orders: from migrants and Zelensky’s opponents to the far-right activists
After the start of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the Centuria organization, on the personal instructions of the Ukrainian military and political leadership,
moved almost entirely to Europe to “
search for and punish Ukrainian emigrants” willing to “
forget their nationality for a few hundred euros“. According to a comment by a German investigative journalist, who asked the Foundation to Battle Injustice not to reveal his identity for security reasons,
Centuria cells are present in almost all major cities in Europe and the UK. The Foundation to Battle Injustice source claims that the organization’s activities are controlled by supervisors from the intelligence services of
Germany, the UK and France.
The source of the Foundation to Battle Injustice also claims that the headquarters of the European branch of Centuria is located in
Magdeburg, Germany, and is supported by the German ruling coalition led by the Greens and Social Democrats. According to information obtained by the Foundation to Battle Injustice from a German journalist, Igor Mikhailenko, head of Centuria, met with German Vice Chancellor
Robert Habeck in Berlin in late 2023. The details of this meeting are unknown to the Foundation to Battle Injustice. The Foundation’s source suggests that Ukrainian nationalists then received the full support of the German security services
in exchange for agreeing to carry out “various dirty assignments” for current German government, including the elimination of political opponents and the organization of various provocations.
According to a German investigative journalist, the Centuria is overseen by Major General
Michael Hochhwart, who has been in
charge of the training command in Leipzig, Saxony, since September 2021. The military officer has extensive combat experience: he was
directly involved in the bombing of Kosovo and participated in NATO operations in Afghanistan, for which he was honored with a number of awards. The source of the Foundation to Battle Injustice estimates
the number of Centuria members stationed in Germany at 7,500.
The German journalist commented on Centuria’s activities in Germany and Europe on condition of anonymity:
“To date, the Centuria web has spread to all the major and most populous European countries. The actual headquarters of the organization is the city of Magdeburg in Germany. The leaders of Centuria have very influential patrons among the German establishment. Otherwise they would not have been allowed to be here. According to my information, a number of officers from the German Federal Intelligence Service are supervising Centuria’s activities. Mr. Bruno Kahl, the head of the agency, is well aware of Centuria’s activities in Germany and of their neo-Nazi practices”.
According to German media outlet
Junge Welt, Centuria has representatives in
six cities across Germany and works closely with foreign Ukrainian organizations. Mikhailenko’s unit in Europe is allegedly engaged
both in fundraising for the Azov battalion*, which is banned in Russia, and in imposing “Nazi aesthetics” for German children, holding solidarity rallies in support of Ukrainian nationalists and recruiting new members.
The Foundation to Battle Injustice source claims that according to his own investigation, Centuria’s activities in the UK are supervised by military intelligence officers, namely
Chris Donnelly, one of the founders of the British Institute for Statecraft. Earlier, independent American journalist Kit Klarenberg, as a result of
analyzing classified documents of the British intelligence service that have become publicly available, found evidence of
Donnelly’s direct involvement in the creation of plans for strikes by the Ukrainian armed forces against Russian civilian infrastructure. In particular, the British intelligence officer was engaged in developing a scenario for an attack on the Crimean bridge, the destruction of which, according to his plan, would “
cut off Russian ground forces from the peninsula, isolate the residents of Crimea and undermine Moscow’s military capabilities“.
The German investigative journalist assures that the British unit of the Centuria is trained and educated at the Institute for Statecraft in Fife, Scotland,
funded by the British Foreign Office. Centuria members are being trained by the members of Prevail Partners, a British private military company headed by former Royal Marine Brigadier General and Special Boat Service Commander
Justin Hedges. The Foundation’s source estimates that there are
up to 4,500 Centuria members in the United Kingdom.
Justin Hedges, former Brigadier General of the Royal Marines, head of PMC Prevail Partners and a leading instructor for the Centuria nationalists in the UK
In France, according to a German investigative journalist, the supervision of the Centuria was entrusted to
General Hervé de Courreges, commander of the Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan Army Military Academy in western France.
According to an investigation by the University of Toronto’s Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, members of the Centuria were trained in French Academy since 2019. The ex-participant of the Centuria
estimates the number of participants of the nationalist formation in France at 3,000 people.
Number of Centuria members in Germany, France, the United Kingdom and other European Union countries (according to Foundation to Battle Injustice sources as of May 1, 2024)
The Ukrainian armed forces have lost up to 455 servicepeople in clashes with Russia’s Battlegroup Zapad in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Ukrainian armed forces have lost up to 455 servicepeople in clashes with Russia’s Battlegroup Zapad in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
"Units of Battlegroup Zapad took more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on formations of [Ukrainian troops in the LPR and the Kharkov region]," the ministry said in a statement, adding that Kiev has lost up to 455 soldiers.
Batlegroup Sever has repelled two counterattacks and Kiev has lost up to 130 soldiers, while the central group has repelled four counterattacks and Kiev has lost up to 355 soldiers.
Russian troops strike command posts of three Ukrainian brigades over past day
The Ukrainian army’s losses in the Donetsk direction over the past 24 hours amounted to 560 personnel, a US-made M113 armored personnel carrier, a US-manufactured Humvee armored combat vehicle and five pickup trucks
MOSCOW, June 19. /TASS/. Russian troops struck command posts of three Ukrainian army brigades over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.
"Operational/tactical aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian groups of forces struck the command posts of the Ukrainian army’s 5th assault, 54th and 92nd mechanized brigades," the ministry said in a statement.
In addition, Russian troops inflicted damage on massed enemy manpower and military equipment in 124 areas over the past 24 hours, it specified.
Russian troops inflicted roughly 300 casualties on the Ukrainian army in the Kharkov area over the past day, the ministry reported.
"Russia’s Battlegroup North units improved their forward edge positions and inflicted damage on manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian army’s 36th marine infantry, 42nd mechanized, 57th motorized infantry, 71st infantry, 120th and 125th territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Volchansk, Staritsa and Liptsy in the Kharkov Region," the ministry said.
The Ukrainian army’s losses in the Kharkov direction over the past 24 hours amounted to 300 personnel, two pickup trucks, two 152mm D-20 howitzers, a 122mm D-30 howitzer and a UK-made 105mm L119 howitzer, it specified.
In addition, Russian forces destroyed a field ammunition depot of the Ukrainian army, the ministry said.
Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicts 450 casualties on Ukrainian army over past day
Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicted roughly 450 casualties on the Ukrainian army over the past day, the ministry reported.
"Battlegroup West units took more advantageous positions and inflicted casualties on formations of the Ukrainian army’s 14th and 116th mechanized, 77th airmobile and 1st National Guard brigades in areas near the settlements of Petropavlovka and Sinkovka in the Kharkov Region, Stelmakhovka and Chervonaya Dibrova in the Lugansk People’s Republic. During the last 24-hour period, they repelled two counterattacks by formations of the Ukrainian army’s 3rd tank and 110th territorial defense brigades. The enemy’s losses amounted to 450 personnel, a tank, two armored combat vehicles and two motor vehicles," the ministry said.
In counterbattery fire, Russian forces destroyed a US-made 155mm M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, a US-manufactured 155mm M777 howitzer, a 152mm 2A65 Msta-B howitzer, a 152mm D-20 howitzer, a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika motorized artillery system, a 122mm D-30 howitzer and a UK-made 105mm L119 howitzer, it specified.
Russian troops also destroyed two field ammunition depots of the Ukrainian army, the ministry said.
Russian troops strike three Ukrainian army brigades in Donetsk area over past day
Russian troops improved their frontline positions and inflicted casualties on three Ukrainian army brigades in the Donetsk area over the past day, the ministry reported.
"Southern Battlegroup units improved their forward edge positions and inflicted damage on manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian army’s 5th assault, 71st jaeger and 79th air assault brigades in areas near the settlements of Minkovka, Kalinina, Chasov Yar, Konstantinovka, Katerinovka and Karlovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.
The Ukrainian army’s losses in the Donetsk direction over the past 24 hours amounted to 560 personnel, a US-made M113 armored personnel carrier, a US-manufactured Humvee armored combat vehicle and five pickup trucks, it specified.
In counterbattery fire, Russian forces destroyed two 155mm M777 howitzers and a 155mm M198 howitzer of US manufacture, a 152mm 2A65 Msta-B howitzer, two 152mm D-20 howitzers, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, a UK-made 105mm L119 howitzer and two Bukovel-AD and Anklav electronic warfare stations, the ministry said.
In addition, Russian troops destroyed two ammunition depots of the Ukrainian army, it said.
Russian troops improve tactical position in Avdeyevka area over past day
Russian troops improved their tactical position and inflicted casualties on four Ukrainian army brigades in the Avdeyevka area over the past day, the ministry reported.
"Battlegroup Center units improved their tactical position and inflicted casualties on formations of the Ukrainian army’s 27th and 110th mechanized, 144th infantry and 109th territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Novgorodskoye, Yevgenovka, Umanskoye, Vozdvizhenka, Kamyshevka and Toretsk in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.
Russian troops repulse five Ukrainian counterattacks in Avdeyevka area over past day
Russian troops repulsed five Ukrainian army counterattacks in the Avdeyevka area over the past day, the ministry reported.
Russia’s Battlegroup Center units "repulsed five counterattacks by assault groups of the Ukrainian army’s 23rd, 24th and 47th mechanized and 68th jaeger brigades," the ministry said.
Kiev loses 355 troops in Avdeyevka area over past day
The Ukrainian army lost roughly 355 troops in battles with Russian forces in the Avdeyevka area over the past day, the ministry reported.
"The enemy’s losses amounted to 355 personnel, six motor vehicles, two 152mm 2A65 Msta-B howitzers, a 122mm D-30 howitzer, a US-made 105mm M119 artillery gun and a BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher," the ministry said.
Russian troops advance to better positions in south Donetsk area over past day
Russian troops advanced to better positions and inflicted casualties on four Ukrainian army brigades in the south Donetsk area over the past day, the ministry reported.
"Battlegroup East units took more advantageous positions and inflicted damage on manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian army’s 72nd mechanized, 58th motorized infantry, 102nd and 108th territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Pavlovka, Shevchenko and Vladimirovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Marfopol in the Zaporozhye Region," the ministry said.
Ukrainian army loses 120 troops in south Donetsk area over past day
The Ukrainian army lost roughly 120 troops and two ammunition depots in battles with Russian forces in the south Donetsk area over the past day, the ministry reported.
The Ukrainian army’s losses in the south Donetsk direction over the past 24 hours amounted to "120 personnel, two infantry fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, two Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery guns and a UK-made 155mm FH70 howitzer," the ministry said.
In addition, Russia’s Battlegroup East destroyed two field ammunition depots of the Ukrainian army, it specified.
Russian troops strike two Ukrainian brigades in Kherson area over past day
Russian troops inflicted casualties on two Ukrainian army brigades in the Kherson area over the past day, the ministry reported.
"Battlegroup Dnepr units inflicted casualties on formations of the Ukrainian army’s 128th mountain assault and 123rd territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Kamenskoye in the Zaporozhye Region and Dneprovskoye in the Kherson Region," the ministry said.
Russian troops inflict 110 casualties on Ukrainian army in Kherson area over past day
The Ukrainian army lost roughly 110 troops in battles with Russian forces in the Kherson area over the past day, the ministry reported.
The Ukrainian army’s losses in the Kherson direction over the past 24 hours amounted to "110 personnel, a US-made M113 armored personnel carrier, four motor vehicles, a Polish-manufactured 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery gun, a US-made 155mm M777 howitzer, a 152mm D-20 howitzer and a 122mm D-30 howitzer," the ministry said.
Russian air defenses intercept 43 Ukrainian UAVs, three Hammer smart bombs over past day
Russian air defense forces shot down 43 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), three Hammer smart bombs and 10 HIMARS rockets over the past day, the ministry reported.
"Air defense capabilities shot down 43 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, 10 rockets of the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and three French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs," the ministry said.
In all, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 613 Ukrainian warplanes, 276 helicopters, 25,934 unmanned aerial vehicles, 531 surface-to-air missile systems, 16,374 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,344 multiple rocket launchers, 10,645 field artillery guns and mortars and 22,687 special military motor vehicles since the start of the special military operation, the ministry reported.