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Russian Perspective: Operation to denazify Ukraine: operational summary March 16 (updated)
2022-03-17
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:47 All the assigned tasks in the special operation will certainly be solved, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

21:46 Distribution of humanitarian aid in Volchansk, Kharkiv region.

21:43 The Ukrainian side fired at a convoy with refugees moving along the humanitarian corridor towards the Russian Federation in the Kharkiv direction, four people were killed, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

21:30 Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Grushko said at a meeting with EU Ambassador to Moscow Markus Ederer that military-technical assistance to Kiev will not remain without consequences for the European Union.

21:00 The United States will send 9,000 anti-tank systems, 800 air defense systems, 20 million pieces of ammunition to Ukraine, Biden said.

20:47 The Ukrainian side is equipping firing positions on the territory of the Odessa Marine Station. Local residents note a large accumulation of armored vehicles and equipment for firing positions.

20:46 The armed forces of the Russian Federation do not leave the homeless without humanitarian assistance. Representatives of the Russian army continue to provide security in the liberated Berdyansk. To maintain a peaceful life for the civilian population, comprehensive support is provided to city shelters.

20:45 Quiet life in the liberated Kherson continues. All socially important infrastructure works in the city. Children with parents walk in the parks. The maintenance of order is provided by Russian troops.Video.

20:34 Broken equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kharkov.Video.

20:27 American kamikaze UAVs Switchblade 300 and Switchblade 600 will be delivered to Ukraine. They are designed to destroy both equipment and infantry.

20:10 The United States will provide Ukraine with an additional $800 million in military assistance, which will bring it to $1 billion this week, Biden said.

20:07 Germany does not have enough surplus defensive weapons to fully meet the needs of Ukraine, said German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock.

19:45 One Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter, six drones were shot down in the air - the Russian Defense Ministry.

19:38 The new authorities of Kherson said they want to improve relations with Russia, reportsRT. Social activists and politicians of the city created a new body - the Committee of Salvation for Peace and Order. Committee representative Kirill Stremousov said that the region wants to establish trade, economic, social and cultural ties with Russia. In addition, the Crimean authorities have already assured of their readiness to supply products to Kherson: from vegetables and fruits to toilet paper and fuels and lubricants.

19:35 The SBU, with the support of Western countries, is preparing a provocation in Ukraine using toxic substances to accuse Russia, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The department also reported that there are no chemical munitions in the Russian units participating in the special operation in Ukraine, and that in order to suppress the provocations of Ukrainian nationalists with poisonous substances, the RF Armed Forces are taking dangerous objects in Ukraine under control.

19:20 D-30 howitzer of the "Crimean Battalion" of the Territorial Defense Forces in a residential area.

18:58 US Senator Lindsey Graham announced that the United States intends to transfer aircraft and air defense systems to Ukraine.

18:40 Appeared on the webvideothe destruction of two units of infantry fighting vehicles by artillery in the suburbs of Kyiv and the destruction of a disguised command post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kiev region with a high-precision Krasnopol projectile.

18:10 The Kiev regime is indifferent to the fate of the people of Ukraine, they were given the task of creating "anti-Russia", Putin said. The Russian leader noted that the Kiev regime is indifferent to the fact that civilians are dying, that hundreds of thousands, millions of people have become refugees, that in the cities held by neo-Nazis and their armed accomplices released from prisons, “a real humanitarian catastrophe is taking place.”

17:30 The entrance to the Dnieper Bay from Ochakov is blocked by various ships. Thus, the exit of ships from the entire Dnieper basin to the Black Sea is impossible, writes Telegram-channel "Reports of the militia of Novorossiya".

17:03 Russian soldiers are doing everything to avoid losses among the civilian population of Ukrainian cities, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

17:00 Another facility has been discovered near Kharkiv associated with American programs to work with potentially dangerous strains and study pathogens of potentially dangerous diseases. In the forest near N. p. Merefa at coordinates 49.797476, 36.086781 there are two buildings of a disguised biological laboratory.

16:53 A precision missile attack was launched on the "Kiev Automation Plant". An enterprise that produced remotely controlled weapon modules.Video.

16:47 CNN reports that the US and NATO are sending several anti-aircraft missile systems to Ukraine. A senior US official said these systems include the Soviet-era SA-8, SA-10, SA-12 and SA-14 mobile air defense systems, which have a longer range than the Stingers (but less than the S-300 system) , which generally makes it possible to hit cruise missiles.

16:15 Photos of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in residential areas of Odessa have appeared on the network. Our team managed to identify the places where the pictures were taken: BMP-2 at the intersection of Lanzheronovskaya and Yekaterininskaya streets near the building of Skarzhinskaya's house. Tank T-64 at the monument to Duke on Primorsky Boulevard. Tank T-64 on Primorsky Boulevard near the Vorontsov Palace.

All positions are located in the historical buildings of the city.

16:00 The Economist (UK) Internet publication criticized Kyiv forcing volunteers to sign long-term contracts if they do not have the necessary experience in combat operations, writes Telegram-channel "Kremlin laundress". Along with this, the unprofessionalism of unit commanders and instructors is pointed out, who train recruits in an extremely short time (3-5 days) and doom them to death. Most of the foreign mercenaries fighting on the side of Ukraine openly adhere to Nazi views and are war criminals.

15:56 A consolidated detachment of volunteers in Crimea is collecting humanitarian aid for residents of the Kherson region. Food packages are being formed in warehouses, said Igor Kastyukevich, head of the Youth Volunteer Corps "We Are Together", coordinator of United Russia on youth policy, State Duma deputy.

15:54 Head of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin instructed to investigate appeals Ukrainian journalist Fakhrudin Sharafmal to kill Russians.

15:27 Head of the Republic of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov promised 10 million rubles to the Russian military, the National Guard and residents of Ukraine for the capture of a Ukrainian journalist who called for the killing of Russian children.

15:05 FSB published video survey of a former serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He stated that the nationalists shot the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who fled under the blows of Russian troops. “An armored personnel carrier drove up, literally a hundred meters away, and started shooting at the boys who were running across the field,” the soldier said.

14:32 The US administration is considering the possibility of providing Ukraine with drones to fight tanks and artillery - NBC. The article talks about two versions of the UAV - Switchblade 300 and 600. The first of them is designed for pinpoint strikes on personnel, and the second - for the destruction of tanks and other armored vehicles.

14:28 In the Sea of ​​Azov near Berdyansk, the National Guard began patrolling.

14:10 The Russian Ministry of Defense showed a missile and artillery depot in the Kherson region that came under the control of the Russian military: there are more than 10 thousand boxes with F-1 grenades, hundreds of boxes with shots for anti-tank grenade launchers, thousands with cartridges. It is expected that they will be handed over to the forces of the DNR and LNR.

13:52 American radicals from the paramilitary group Boogaloo Boys are going to Ukraine to participate in hostilities on the side of Kyiv.

13:30 The armored train of the RF Armed Forces went to the front in the Kherson region.

13:16 On the morning of March 16, the TV tower in Vinnitsa was shelled, according to the State Service for Communications. On-air broadcasting in the city and neighboring settlements is temporarily not available.

13:05 The Kakhovskaya HPP was taken under guard without a fight, the local paramilitary guards laid down their arms and went home, the National Guard reported.

13:04 The Russian Federation is not ready to consider proposals for mediation in negotiations with Ukraine from countries that have joined the anti-Russian sanctions, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

12:06 Negotiations with Ukraine are going hard and slowly, said the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky. According to him, the main points of the position of the Russian Federation are the preservation and development of the neutral status of Ukraine - demilitarization, a whole range of issues related to the size of the Ukrainian army is being discussed.

He also added that Ukraine offers an Austrian, Swedish version of a neutral, demilitarized state.

12:00 Israeli snipers are working in the city of Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye region. This was reported by a local resident writes Telegram channel "Southern bridgehead". Recall that Israel acted as a peacekeeping country that tried to maintain neutrality with respect to Russia's special operation in Ukraine, but continues to send its mercenaries there.

11:17 The decision to start a special operation in Ukraine was based on an extremely accurate assessment of the situation in the world, the slightest delay in relation to the openly Russophobic Kiev regime would turn into a big tragedy in the near future, said Sergey Naryshkin, director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation.

11:15 Residents of the city of Gulyaypole (Zaporozhye region) continue to report that Ukrainian nationalists are mining fields in the city and its environs.

10:45 At one of the sites, our units managed to force the Irpen River (Kyiv region). We have entrenched ourselves on the other side, we will expand the bridgehead there, according to military commander Alexander Kots.

10:45 At one of the sites, our units managed to force the Irpen River (Kyiv region). We have entrenched ourselves on the other side, we will expand the bridgehead there, according to military commander Alexander Kots.

10:41 Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk said that Germany is supplying Kiev with "insufficient defensive weapons."

10:40 An artillery unit of the Russian Armed Forces, in the course of carrying out a fire mission, with an accurate hit, destroyed a combined warehouse of missile and artillery weapons and up to 20 units of military equipment and weapons, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

10:30 NATO will continue to supply weapons to Ukraine in a variety of ways, said British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace.

10:05 The team of the Rybar Telegram channel managed to identify one of the targets of the morning attack on Kiev - the territory of the NPO "Kyiv Automation Plant" on Starokievskaya Street in the city center.

10:05 The team of the Rybar Telegram channel managed to identify one of the targets of the morning attack on Kiev - the territory of the NPO "Kyiv Automation Plant" on Starokievskaya Street in the city center.

The enterprise produced hydraulic devices and other elements of control systems for the needs of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex.

09:45 Eyewitnesses report that huge echelons with tanks and other equipment are moving through Germany towards Ukraine.

09:29 The Russian army has delivered over 90 tons of humanitarian aid to residents of the Dergachev district of the Kharkiv region.

09:00 A cruise missile strikes a military facility in Kyiv.

08:40 Footage appeared on the web from the Inohodets drone, which strikes at the fortifications and armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

08:00 Russia delivered more than 90 tons of humanitarian aid to the Kharkiv region - people lined up in long lines. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation clarified that among the humanitarian aid are food, bottled water and medicines for hospitals. In addition, warm clothes for adults and children were distributed to the residents of the Dergachev district.

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