BREAKING: Russia creates no-fly zone over Donbass

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News fallout from the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine says Russia has created a no-fly zone over the Donbass.

This news was broken by the official representative of the People’s Militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Eduard Basurin, on Friday.

“I think so,” he said on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel, answering in his answer to a question about the closing of the skies over Donbass and the “deployment of an umbrella” of the no-fly zone over the Donbass.

He also commented on the request of the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, to strengthen air defence systems in the Donbass, saying that the DPR does not need to transfer the complexes, it is enough for Russia to control the skies over the Donbass.

Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal “the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.”

For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out “demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine”, to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for “bloody crimes against civilians” in Donbass.
According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation , the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive , but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized.

As of March 17, more than 4,000 military infrastructure facilities were destroyed, as well as 181 aircraft and helicopters, over 1,300 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 133 multiple launch rocket systems and 172 drones, including the Turkish Bayraktar TB2.

The offensive is going on in several directions, Kyiv is blocked from the west, the RF Armed Forces have achieved air supremacy over the whole of Ukraine. The territory around the Chernobyl (mothballed) and Zaporozhye (operating) nuclear power plants was taken under control. Eight years later, the North Crimean Canal was unblocked, and work is underway to restore water supply to the Crimea.

According to the RF Ministry of Defense, as of March 2, 498 Russian servicemen were killed and 1,597 wounded during the operation. Among the Ukrainian side, according to the Russian military department, the losses are many times higher: more than 2,870 killed and about 3,700 wounded.

Foreign mercenaries fighting for Ukraine are also liquidated: according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, up to 180 foreign “soldiers of fortune” were destroyed during the strike on the Yavorovsky military training ground in the Lvov region alone. As the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation noted, “there will be no mercy for mercenaries, wherever they are.”

According to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as of March 14, more than 630 civilians were killed and more than 1,100 injured during the conflict. These statistics take into account, among other things, losses in the territories of the DPR and LPR, which, according to UNHCHR estimates, account for 26 dead and 130 injured.

However, based on the published figures, more than 20 dead during the Tochka-U strike on Donetsk on March 14 were not included in these statistics. In this context, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya noted that US Deputy Secretary General Rosemary DiCarlo, losing sight of this information, “obviously took a side in this conflict.”

Against the backdrop of hostilities in a large number of cities and villages in Ukraine, a humanitarian catastrophe is emerging. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation lays responsibility for this on the Kiev authorities, who refuse to coordinate the work of humanitarian corridors, as well as local nationalists, in some cases, according to the military department, holding civilians as human shields.

Source: RIA News Agency

 


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