❗️ Azov's provocation over Lviv is aimed at putting pressure on NATO countries to introduce a no-fly zone over Ukraine - Russian Defense Ministry
UPD on the special operation in Ukraine from the Russian Ministry of Defense:
➖Kyiv plans to present attacks on US and Western diplomatic facilities as an alleged "targeted attack by the RF Armed Forces."
➖Units of the Russian armed forces, having crossed the Kashlagach River, broke through the defenses of the Aidar battalion and advanced 5 km.
➖The drone of the RF Armed Forces destroyed the radar for illumination and guidance of the S-300 air defense system of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kiev, air defense systems shot down 5 drones of Ukraine in the air.
➖During the day, 59 military facilities of Ukraine were hit. Since the beginning of the operation, 201 Ukrainian UAVs, 1443 tanks and other armored vehicles have been destroyed.
➖The DPR group destroyed up to a company from the 53rd separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and took control of the village of Taramchuk.
➖An employee of the SBU department for Donetsk and Luhansk regions, who took part in the creation of sabotage groups, surrendered to the Russian military.
➖A group of LPR troops has reached the northern outskirts of the city of Lisichansk, is carrying out the destruction of disparate groups that have retreated from the city of Rubezhnoye.