Sakhalin resident killed during special operation in Donbass
[REGNUM] During a peacekeeping special operation in defense of Donbass, a native of Sakhalin, Sergey Yuryevich Tolmachev died. The governor of the island region Valery Limarenko wrote about this in his telegram channel.
Tolmachev served under contract in military unit 30926 in Vladivostok.
"Sergei showed courage and courage, fighting against the nationalists in the area of the village of Obukhovichi, Kiev region, but could not get out of this battle alive. I offer sincere condolences to the family and friends of Sergei Tolmachev. The entire Sakhalin Region mourns with you." wrote Limarenko.
The governor promised that all necessary assistance would be provided to the family of the deceased.
Russian Defense Ministry: Nazis kill up to 235 people a day in Mariupol
[REGNUM] Ukrainian nationalists in those neighborhoods of Mariupol that they still control kill between 80 and 235 civilians a day, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, said on March 20.
According to him, desperate and crazy bandits, realizing the impossibility of providing any assistance from Kyiv, staged a mass terror in those quarters of the city that they still control.
“It has been objectively established that from 80 to 235 innocent citizens die every day at the hands of the Nazis, these are terrible statistics for the last three days alone, and these are the people who are trying to leave the city on their own, the militants simply shoot them,” he said at a briefing.
Mizintsev stressed that the talks of the militants with officials in Kyiv, which the Russian military records every day in radio intercepts, speak of their extreme anger towards the Ukrainian authorities because they were abandoned, while they are forced to strictly follow the order: "stand to death," and the status of "martyrs of Mariupol" has already been assigned to them.
Bastrykin instructed to investigate the shelling of Lugansk school
[REGNUM] Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin instructed to investigate the circumstances of the shelling of a school in the LPR, the mining of a chemical plant in the Sumy region and a school in the Nikolaev region.
"Bastrykin instructed the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation to investigate the circumstances of the shelling of a school in the LPR during the evacuation of people. In addition, ... gave instructions to investigate the circumstances of the nationalists' mining of a chemical plant in the Sumy region and a school in the Mykolaiv region," the message says.
As previously reported, on March 19, the Armed Forces of Ukraine opened fire with heavy artillery during the evacuation of people from the school building in Rubizhne.
Ukrainian military shells Donetsk with rocket artillery
[RIA Novosti] After midnight, Ukrainian troops shelled the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing 20 rockets from the BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reports.
"Fire was recorded from the VFU in the direction: 00.10 - settlement Novomikhailovka - settlement Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 20 rockets were fired from the BM-21 Grad," the statement published on the representative's Telegram channel says.
This is the second such attack in a day. Earlier, the Ukrainian security forces struck from the "Grad" in the Petrovsky district on Sunday at 18.55.
On February 21, Vladimir Putin , in response to the requests of the Donbass republics and after the appeal of the State Duma deputies, signed decrees recognizing the sovereignty of the LPR and the DPR . Early on the morning of February 24, Russia launched a military special operation to demilitarize Ukraine. Putin called its goal "the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years."
According to the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces only strike at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops.