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Representatives of Ukraine and Russia held briefings
President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky announced at a briefing about the breakdown of diplomatic agents with Russia. In parallel, the Russian Ministry of Defense also conducted a briefing and stated that the SBU was preparing provocations on the Internet.
Zelensky said that "Russia vilely attacked our state early in the morning as fascist Germany did during the Second World War." According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducted by heavy battles in the Donbass: "The enemy suffers serious losses, there will be even more." During the fighting in Ukraine, more than 40 people were killed, several dozen wounded, said adviser to the head of Ukrainian president Alexei Ardronstovich.
The President of Ukraine Zelensky called on Russians to go to peaceful rallies against the war with Ukraine. “To everyone who has not lost his conscience, time to go out and declare a protest against this war. Against the war with Ukraine, ”he said.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation at its briefing stated that Ukraine through controlled telegram channels distributes data on “mass victims” among the civilian population, but in fact they are supposedly staged. The Ministry of Defense claims that it does not cause blows to the cities of Ukraine and the country's civilian population does not threaten anything. The agency also denies the alleges of allegedly not selectivity and disproportionality of blows.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said that the national police of the DPR and the LPR went on a counterattack with fire support for Russian troops, and the operation itself - "to protect the DPR and LPR." The group of troops of the DPR has moved by 3 kilometers, and the LPR - by 1.5 kilometers. The losses of the Ministry of Defense did not report.
Russia does not inflict any blows to the cities of Ukraine, “only a military infrastructure is disabled,” the department emphasized.
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