
{"id":3562,"date":"2022-06-20T07:14:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T07:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thayninga.org\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2022-06-20T07:14:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T07:14:57","slug":"briefing-by-russian-defence-ministry-june-14-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thayninga.org\/2022\/06\/20\/briefing-by-russian-defence-ministry-june-14-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry (June 14, 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry (June 14, 2022)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">High-precision long-range Kalibr missiles near Priluki, Chernigov region, have destroyed AFU arsenal of artillery weapons and ammunition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In addition, high-precision air-based missiles have hit 11 areas of concentration of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment, 8 firing positions of AFU artillery units, including 3 platoons of Grad multiple-launch rocket systems near Bakhmut and Pereezdnoe in Donetsk People&#8217;s Republic, Lisichansk in Lugansk People&#8217;s Republic, and 2 ammunition depots on the southern outskirts of Kharkov and near Gorskoe in Lugansk People&#8217;s Republic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 101 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 350 nationalists, 3 command posts, 13 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 6 Grad multiple rocket launchers, 14 field artillery mounts and 22 special vehicles have been destroyed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Russian air defense means have shot down 1 MiG-29 aircraft of Ukrainian Air Force near Slavyansk in Donetsk People&#8217;s Republic and 1 Mi-24 helicopter near Snegirevka in Nikolaev region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">9 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been shot down nnear Chervonaya Gusarovka, Bolshie Prokhody, Malaya Kamyshevakha in Kharkov region, Apostolovo in Dnepropetrovsk region, Donetsk, Levkovka, and Yakovlevka in Donetsk People&#8217;s Republic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In addition, 1 Ukrainian Tochka-U ballistic missile near Vernopol&#8217;e, Kharkov region, and 14 Smerch rockets near Donetsk, Aleksandrovka, Donetsk People&#8217;s Republic, Popasnaya, Lugansk People&#8217;s Republic, and Sukhaya Kamenka, Kharkov region, have been intercepted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Missile troops and artillery have hit 280 areas of AFU concentration of manpower and military equipment, 18 command posts, 59 firing positions of artillery and mortar units, as well as 1 fuel depot near Konstantinovka in Donetsk People&#8217;s Republic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In total, 202 Ukrainian airplanes and 131 helicopters, 1,205 unmanned aerial vehicles, 338 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,548 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 521 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,947 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,605 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The Ukrainian army continues to suffer significant losses during the special military operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">I would like to note that in recent weeks, incidents involving the shooting of Ukrainian servicemen in the back by nationalist units have become more frequent in areas of military operations. Thus, after a fire preparation for an attack by Russian troops near Novomikhailovka in Donetsk People&#8217;s Republic, more than 30 servicemen of the 25th Battalion of the 54th Mechanized Brigade of AFU decided to lay down their arms and surrender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Ukrainian servicemen occupying a stronghold near Zvioroferma asked the Russian unit command via radio to cease fire and provide a corridor for exit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Around 10 p.m., AFU servicemen with white flags began moving towards Russian positions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">At that moment, Ukrainian nationalist barrier unit arrived at the stronghold in armored vehicles and opened crossfire in the back on the servicemen of the 54th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. As a result of this shooting, 32 Ukrainian servicemen were fatally wounded and killed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">This incident, as well as many others like it, clearly demonstrates that amid growing military failures and demoralization of Ukrainian troops, the Kiev nationalist regime is trying to stop the retreat and surrender of its units by punitive actions of barrier squads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The lives of Ukrainian servicemen and mobilized fighters of territorial defence units mean nothing to the current leadership of Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry (June 14, 2022) The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine. High-precision long-range Kalibr missiles near Priluki, Chernigov region, have destroyed AFU arsenal of artillery weapons and ammunition. In addition, high-precision air-based missiles have hit 11 areas of concentration of Ukrainian manpower and military<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thayninga.org\/2022\/06\/20\/briefing-by-russian-defence-ministry-june-14-2022\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thayninga.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thayninga.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thayninga.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thayninga.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thayninga.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thayninga.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3565,"href":"http:\/\/www.thayninga.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions\/3565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thayninga.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/3564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thayninga.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thayninga.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thayninga.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}