June 14, 2022
1. Kiev created one more ‘tragedy’ with trapped GIs at Azot chemical plant
Emergency statement Head of the Russian Federation Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response - Head of the National Centre for State Defence Control of the Russian Federation
The Ukrainian side has requested a humanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians (women, children and the elderly) at Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk to Kiev-controlled territory in Lisichansk.
Taking into account that on June 13, 2022, the last bridge over the Seversky Donets River towards Lisichansk was blown up by the AFU on the orders of the Kiev authorities in order to prevent the retreat of the territorial defense units, it is not possible to safely evacuate in this direction.
Nationalist troops, retreating from residential areas of Severodonetsk, deliberately drove hundreds of civilians out of the city into the industrial zone of Azot chemical plant in order to use them as human shield.
Understanding the hopelessness of the situation of their armed formations, Russia considered the appeal by the Ukrainian side for the alleged rescue of civilians to be an attempt to withdraw the surrounded armed units. Thus, there are all signs of a repeat of Mariupol scenario engineered at the Azov still plant.
The Russian Armed Forces and formations of the Lugansk People's Republic are ready to conduct a humanitarian operation to evacuate civilians, following humane principles. For this purpose, a humanitarian corridor is opening on June 15, 2022 from 08:00 a.m. to 08:00 p.m. (Moscow time) in the northern direction (to Svatovo, Lugansk People's Republic). The safe evacuation of all civilians, and their transport in humanitarian convoys to temporary accommodation centres are guaranteed.
Russia proposed that the militants of the nationalist battalions and foreign mercenaries stationed at Azot plant should cease all hostilities and release the civilians they are holding through this humanitarian corridor from 08:00 a.m. (Moscow time) on June 15, 2022, as well as stop senseless resistance and lay down their arms.
The Russian Federation guarantees the preservation of lives and the observance of all norms of the Geneva Convention for the treatment of prisoners of war, as has already happened to your comrades who previously surrendered in Mariupol. The actual readiness of the Ukrainian side to start a humanitarian operation is indicated by the raising of white flags.
Once again, Russia called on the official authorities in Kiev to show prudence and give appropriate instructions to the militants to stop their senseless resistance and withdraw from the territory of Azot plant. This statement is immediately brought to the Ukrainian side through the Ukrainian deputy prime minister, Irina Vereshchuk, via the operational channels of communication.
2. Ukrainian ultra-Nazi deliberately have killed their countrymen
Sometimes barbaric incidents involving the shooting of Ukrainian servicemen in the back by nationalist units have become more frequent in areas of military operations in Ukraine.
Thus, after a fire preparation for an attack by Russian troops near Novomikhailovka in Donetsk People's Republic, more than 30 servicemen of the 25th Battalion of the 54th Mechanized Brigade of the AFU decided to lay down their arms and surrender. Ukrainian servicemen occupying a stronghold near Zvioroferma asked the Russian unit command via radio to cease fire and provide a corridor for exit.
Around 10 p.m., AFU servicemen with white flags began moving towards Russian positions. At that moment, a Ukrainian nationalist so called “barrier unit” (that is firing squad preventing soldiers to surrender) arrived at the stronghold in armored vehicles and opened crossfire in the back on the servicemen of the 54th Brigade of the AFU.
As a result of this shooting, 32 Ukrainian servicemen were fatally wounded and killed.
This incident, as well as many others like it, clearly demonstrates that amid growing military failures and demoralization of Ukrainian troops, the Kiev nationalist regime is trying to stop the retreat and surrender of its units by punitive actions of ‘barrier squads”.
The lives of Ukrainian servicemen and mobilized fighters of territorial defence units mean nothing to the current leadership of Ukraine.
3. Sikorsky wanted nuclear weapons from NATO to be given to Kiev
Poland has been a leading proponent of punishing Russia through sanctions and giving Ukraine advanced weaponry to fend off the offensive. Radoslaw Sikorski, a member of the European Parliament and a former Polish foreign minister, went so far as to suggest that the West might give Kiev nuclear warheads to defend itself.
Poland’s weapons stocks have been left too bare by military aid to Ukraine, and the country wants its Western allies to replace the firepower that was shipped to Kiev, Polish President Andrzej Duda told his army commanders on June 13. “We expect the gaps that have arisen in our resources to be refilled also within the framework of allied support mechanisms,” Duda said in a military briefing. Poland has been Ukraine’s top supplier of heavy weapons, including hundreds of tanks, artillery pieces and other gear, he added.
The aid also included hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition, as well as drones and anti-aircraft launchers. Duda said Warsaw moved quickly to meet neighbor Ukraine’s needs on the battlefield, providing about $1.7 billion in military aid alone.
4. Situation on the battlefields
On June 13 the AFU troops heavily shelled Donbass with 152 mm and 155 mm rockets and artillery shells. Out of 9 districts of Donetsk eight have been shelled for 6 hours. Nearly 700 different rockets and artillery shells have been used 5 civilians were killed, including 11-year boy, and 39 wounded. Five schools and five hospitals have been damaged, including maternity clinic.
Such large-scale attack of Donbass is the heaviest from 2015.
The Donetsk Peoples’ Republic (DPR) is requesting additional “allied forces” to help in its fight against Ukrainian forces, its head, Denis Pushilin, outlined the same day Monday in a video address. The move comes amid reported heavy artillery shelling by Kiev of residential areas in Donetsk and other locations across the republic.
“The enemy has literally crossed all lines. Prohibited methods of warfare are being used. The residential areas and the central districts of the city of Donetsk are under artillery shelling, other cities and towns of the DPR are also under fire,” Pushilin stated.
Therefore, the republic is requesting Russia to deploy additional forces to help in the ongoing conflict, the official stated. “An understanding was reached that all the necessary additional forces of the allied troops, primarily of Russia, will be deployed,” he said. It is reported that powerful Iskander missile was requested from Moscow to punish the aggressor.
The village of Zaymishche in the Bryansk Region of Russia was shelled from Ukraine on June 14, Governor Aleksandr Bogomaz has said. The settlement is located near the town of Klintsy, some 45km from the Ukrainian border. He clarified that there had been six victims. All of them suffered shrapnel wounds and were hospitalized in stable condition, he noted. Some 50 building in the village have been damaged as a result of the shelling, according to the governor.
Numerous settlements in Russia’s southwestern regions of Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk have been struck from inside Ukraine since Moscow launched its military operation in the country in late February.
The attacks, targeting both infrastructure and residential areas, have caused destruction, injuries and several fatalities among civilians.
Moscow has previously warned that it will hit Ukrainian “decision-making centers, including Kiev” if such incidents continue.
On the other hand, high-precision long-range Kalibr missiles near Priluki, Chernigov region, have destroyed AFU arsenal of artillery weapons and ammunition.
In addition, high-precision air-based missiles have hit 11 areas of concentration of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment, 8 firing positions of AFU artillery units, including 3 platoons of Grad multiple-launch rocket systems near Bakhmut and Pereezdnoe in Donetsk People's Republic, Lisichansk in Lugansk People's Republic, and 2 ammunition depots on the southern outskirts of Kharkov and near Gorskoe in Lugansk People's Republic.
Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 101 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration. The attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 350 nationalists, 3 command posts, 13 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 6 Grad multiple rocket launchers, 14 field artillery mounts and 22 special vehicles have been destroyed.
Russian air defense means have shot down 1 MiG-29 aircraft of Ukrainian Air Force near Slavyansk in Donetsk People's Republic and 1 Mi-24 helicopter near Snegirevka in Nikolaev Region. 9 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been shot down nnear Chervonaya Gusarovka, Bolshie Prokhody, Malaya Kamyshevakha in Kharkov region, Apostolovo in Dnepropetrovsk region, Donetsk, Levkovka, and Yakovlevka in Donetsk People's Republic.
In addition, 1 Ukrainian Tochka-U ballistic missile near Vernopol'e, Kharkov region, and 14 Smerch rockets near Donetsk, Aleksandrovka, Donetsk People's Republic, Popasnaya, Lugansk People's Republic, and Sukhaya Kamenka, Kharkov region, have been intercepted.
Missile troops and artillery have hit 280 areas of AFU concentration of manpower and military equipment, 18 command posts, 59 firing positions of artillery and mortar units, as well as 1 fuel depot near Konstantinovka in Donetsk People's Republic.
In total from February 24th, 202 Ukrainian airplanes and 131 helicopters, 1,205 unmanned aerial vehicles, 338 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,548 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 521 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,947 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,605 special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.
Written by Vladimir P. Kozin
