The main thing from the briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
- The RF Armed Forces hit the control posts of the Ukrainian Nazi formations "Kraken" and "Azov" in the Kharkov region;
- up to 240 nationalists were destroyed by air strikes;
- Russian aviation destroyed the Osa-AKM air defense system, ten tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, three BM-21 Grad MLRS installations, seven artillery pieces and mortars, 17 special vehicles;
- The Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Su-25 aircraft in the Nikolaev region;
- Russian air defense systems shot down seven UAVs;
- since the beginning of May, the influx of foreign mercenaries to Ukraine has dried up;
- the total number of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine decreased from 6.6 thousand to 3.5 thousand;
- hundreds of mercenaries were destroyed in places where they underwent additional training, most of them in the combat zone;
- captured mercenaries tell during interrogations that they are sacrificed in the first place;
— faced with a real combat situation, a significant number of mercenaries prefer to leave the territory of Ukraine, but the Kyiv regime prevents them from going abroad;
- In accordance with international humanitarian law, mercenaries are not combatants. The best that awaits them is criminal liability;
- emergency attempts by the Kyiv regime to guarantee legal protection to mercenaries will not save any of them.