The main thing from the morning briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the special operation:
- overnight, high-precision missiles destroyed an ammunition factory in the Brovary district of the Kiev region;
- Russian aviation destroyed 68 military facilities of Ukraine.
Among them:
- in the areas of Krivoi Luka and Krasnoarmeysk, two S-300 illumination and guidance locators and in the area of Severodonetsk, the Osa-AKM air defense system;
- six depots of rocket and artillery weapons and fuel, as well as 40 areas of concentration of Ukrainian military equipment and personnel in Kremennaya, Krasny Liman, Kolodezy, Torsky, Yampolovka and Novoselovka;
- Russian aviation hit four clusters of manpower and equipment at night, as well as a convoy of equipment on the march, while more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, seven infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers and 14 armored vehicles were destroyed;
- rocket troops and artillery hit 814 objects, including 17 command posts, 111 artillery firing positions and 684 strong points and areas of concentration of enemy manpower;
- Russian air defense in the area of Avdeevka, Bayrak, Lozova, Malaya Kamyshevakha, Novoprokofievka, Polog, Chernobaevka, Shirokoye, Yasinovataya shot down ten Ukrainian UAVs;
- in the course of offensive operations to liberate Mariupol, at the request of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on April 16, a special operation was carried out in the Primorsky district to free the hostages held by the Ukrainian Nazis in a Turkish mosque.
As a result of the selfless actions of the Russian special forces group, the mosque was released, 29 militants, including foreign mercenaries, were killed. The hostages, citizens of one of the CIS countries, were released and taken to a safe place.
Surrounded and completely blocked in Mariupol on the territory of Azovstal, the Ukrainian group was asked to voluntarily lay down their arms and surrender in order to save their lives.
Galip Sr