April 12th, 2022
1. Tochka-U again is used by Kiev after Kramatorsk attack
Late evening April 10th, 2022 the AFU fired cluster missile Tochka-U twice: one versus Donetsk (it was intercepted), and against Novoaydar (the LPR).
On Sunday, April 10th, the LPR reported that Ukrainian troops fired at the village of Novoaydar with a Tochka-U missile, resulting in the death of a woman. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic, the shelling of Novoaydar led to the destruction of nine houses in the village. "As a result of this shelling, a warehouse with mineral fertilizers, namely ammonium nitrate, was damaged in the settlement of Novoaydar, which detonated, causing secondary damage to both residential buildings and industrial structures".
2. Humanitarian assistance continues despite Ukrainian blockade
The Russian Federation, in strict compliance with the norms of international humanitarian law, continues its systematic and coordinated work to provide comprehensive assistance to the population of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, as well as to civilians and foreign nationals in the liberated territories of Ukraine.
The Russian Armed Forces have been opening humanitarian corridors in the Kharkov and Mariupol directions daily since 10:00AM (Moscow time). In response to humanitarian initiatives by Germany, Turkey and France to evacuate civilians and foreign nationals from Mariupol, also provide humanitarian routes daily open an additional humanitarian corridor to Berdyansk and onwards in two directions: the first by land transport to the Republic of Crimea or Zaporozhye (to Kiev-controlled territories), the second by sea transport to selected destinations.
The Ukrainian side has never confirmed the security guarantees of the humanitarian corridor in question and continues to deliberately obstruct the implementation of these humanitarian initiatives.
The Russian side is ready to deploy humanitarian corridors in any other directions as soon as possible and to ensure the safe evacuation of civilians.
The Ukrainian side has announced 10 corridors in the Zaporozhye and Donetsk directions for the current day, of which, as before, none towards Russia.
Over the past 24 hours, without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities, 26,676 people, including 3,447 children, have been evacuated to Russia from the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and dangerous areas of Ukraine, while a total of 704,434 people, including 135,153 children, have been evacuated since the special military operation began.
The state border of the Russian Federation was crossed by 90,149 vehicles, of which 3,169 per day.
In Mariupol, also without any involvement from the Ukrainian side, 134,299 people have already been rescued from the lawlessness of the nationalists, including 716 in the past 24 hours.
A daily analysis of appeals by Ukrainian citizens to the hotline of the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for humanitarian response in Ukraine, to federal executive authorities, various public organizations, as well as constituent entities of the Russian Federation, to family, friends and acquaintances living in Russia shows that a significant part of the population forcibly held by nationalists in Ukrainian cities is still seeking any opportunity to evacuate to Russian territory.
Over the past day, another 925 such appeals have been received, and in total there are already 2,743,623 of 2,126 settlements in Ukraine in the database.
Ukrainian nationalists continue to hold 6,362 foreign nationals from 13 countries hostage as human shields.
More than 9,500 temporary accommodation centres continue to operate in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and are fully equipped with recreational facilities and hot meals. The refugees are treated individually and provided with qualified medical and psychological assistance.
A sufficient number of buses have been placed at the border crossing points to transport people to their chosen places of residence or to temporary accommodation centers.
2. Distribution of the humanitarian aid
Federal executive authorities, together with the subjects of the Russian Federation, various public organizations, patriotic movements, continue to accumulate humanitarian aid. More than 22,500 tons of basic necessities, food and medicines have been prepared at the collection points.
Since March 2nd, 9,977.3 tons of humanitarian cargo have already been delivered to Ukraine, 781 humanitarian actions have been carried out, including 6 actions in Kherson region, as well as in Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, during which 197 tons of basic necessities, medicines and food were transferred to the civilian population of the liberated areas.
On April 9th, 12 humanitarian actions have been planned and are currently being carried out in Kharkov, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, in Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, during which 338 tons of basic necessities, medicine and food will be distributed.
Russian and the DPR troops have captured several Ukrainian soldiers who corrected the fire against humanitarian aid supply routes coming from Russia.
3. Kiev still blockades the Black Sea ports
Still 77 foreign vessels from 18 countries remain blocked in Ukrainian ports. The threat of shelling and high mine danger created by official Kiev in its internal waters and territorial sea prevents vessels from safely leaving the ports and reaching the open sea.
In confirmation of this, the Russian Federation is opening daily from 08:00 to 19:00 (Moscow time) a humanitarian corridor, which is a safe route south-west of Ukraine's territorial sea, 80 nautical miles long and 3 nautical miles wide.
Information on the operation of the Maritime Humanitarian Corridor is announced in navigational warnings through the World Navigation Alert Service (Area 3, Cadiz, Spain).
Every 15 minutes every day on international VHF radio channels 14 and 16, the Russian Navy transmits messages in English and Russian containing detailed information on the operation of the Maritime Humanitarian Corridor.
At the same time, the Kiev authorities continue to fail to acknowledge and shy away from engaging on the issue of ensuring the safe passage of foreign vessels to the assembly area.
The Russian Federation is taking a full range of exhaustive measures to ensure civilian navigation in the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Mediterranean.
Once again, Russia calls on the International Maritime Organization and the management of ship-owning companies to influence official Kiev to take measures aimed at unblocking and securing the departure of foreign vessels from Ukrainian ports.
Russian Navy released two MS “Tzarevna” and “Lydia Augusta” and their 47 crew members, including citizens of Azerbaijan, Egypt, Russia and Ukraine seized by Ukrainian nationalists.
It was announced on April 11th that Mariupol sea port has been captured by the DPR and Russian troops.
4. Russian stance is reiterated
The unwillingness of the Kiev regime to stop the genocide of Russians and implement its obligations under international treaties have led to the special military operation, Russian Ambassador to the USA Anatoly Antonov said in an interview for Newsweek April 8, 2022.
He said that the West is inciting further bloodshed in Ukraine by pumping the country with weapons. "Western states are directly involved in the current events as they continue to pump Ukraine with weapons and ammunition, thereby inciting further bloodshed," he noted.
"We warn that such actions are dangerous and provocative as they are directed against our state," the envoy emphasized. "They can lead the US and the Russian Federation onto the path of direct military confrontation. Any supply of weapons and military equipment from the West, performed by transport convoys through the territory of Ukraine, is a legitimate military target for our Armed Forces," Antonov added.
Antonov repeated Moscow’s stance regarding the conflict resolution in Ukraine. It includes the demand for an unconditional consideration of Russia's security interests, the demilitarization and denazification of the Ukrainian state, ensuring its neutral and non-nuclear status, as well as the recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea and the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.
5. Warning about another provocations
Kiev is preparing new provocations with a goal to accuse Russia of violence against Ukrainian civilians in the Sumy region, according to the head of Russia's National Defense Management Centre, Mikhail Mizintsev.
He said that the "staged provocations" in the north-eastern region of Ukraine are being prepared by the Kiev regime under guidance of British special services.
"Representatives of Ukrainian and western media have been invited to the city of Seredina-Buda in the Sumy region, which was previously under the control of Russian troops, to film the staged stories," Mizintsev said during a briefing. "At the same time, to conceal the provocation and prevent it from being exposed by real witnesses, a curfew was introduced in the city, and the local population was forcibly evicted from the places where filming is set to take place."
Mizintsev went on to break down the scenario of the provocation, saying that "British directors" are collecting bodies in the basement of a residential building in one of the towns in the Sumy region, with the corpses to be presented later as the alleged victims of the Russian troops. According to the scenario, Mizintsev said, the Russian military allegedly committed mass killings and atrocities when leaving the region.
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6. Situation on the battlefield
Mercenaries from different nations still are entrenched in Mariupol. Radio communication monitored there revealed that they speak six different foreign languages, including Danish, English, French, Georgian and others.
A Governmental Chechen delegation vising liberated areas in Ukraine has collected two types of manuals how to prepare explosive devices and describing methods to frighten local civilians by arranging staged video shows. Some manuals have been written and adapted for teenagers
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
On Sunday April 10th, high-precision sea-based Kalibr missiles on the southern outskirts of Dnipropetrovsk destroyed equipment from a S-300 anti-aircraft missile division supplied to the Kiev regime by a European country presumably by Slovakia, which was hidden in a hangar. Four S-300 launchers and up to 25 Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel were hit, too.
During the night, high-precision air-based missiles near Velikaya Novoselovka destroyed weapons and military equipment repair base of the Ukrainian air defence forces, including Buk-M1 and Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile systems. 2 ammunition depots near Nikolaev and Zhovtnevoe have also been destroyed, as well as a radar of S-300 anti-aitcraft missile system in Uspenovki area. As a result of high-precision strikes, 9 tanks, 5 Akatsiya 2S3 self-propelled artillery systems, 5 BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers and over 60 nationalists were destroyed in Vozdvizhenka-2 and Ivanovka, Donetsk Region. Russian air defence means shot down 1 Ukrainian Su-27 aircraft in the air near Izyum.In addition, 3 unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed near Balakleya in Kharkov Region, Gulyai Polye and Volnovakha, as well as 1 Valkyrie drone near Kaliniskoe in Nikolaev Region.
Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter has been shot down near Posad-Pokrovskoe, Kherson Region, by concentrated small arms fire.
April 11th operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 78 Ukrainian military assets. Among them: 3 command posts, 1 radar for illumination and guidance, 3 positions of short-range anti-aircraft missile systems, 4 ammunition depots, as well as 58 strong points and areas of Ukrainian military equipment concentration.
April 12th operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 38 Ukrainian military facilities. Among them: 1 ammunition depot in Toshkivka, Lugansk Region, as well as 8 areas of concentration of Ukrainian weapons and military equipment in Glazunovka, Pyatigorskoe and Prishib in Kharkov Region. Russian Air Defence means shot down 2 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the air over Ochakov and Nikolayev.
In total, from February 24th 130 aircraft and 99 helicopters, 244 anti-aircraft missile systems S-300, Buk-M1, Osa AKM, 445 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,153 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 241 multiple launch rocket systems, 924 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,063 special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
Written by Vladimir P. Kozin
