China News Agency, Moscow, May 4 (Reporter Tian Bing) Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a military work conference on the 4th that NATO transport vehicles carrying weapons and ammunition for the Ukrainian army will be used by Russia once they appear in Ukraine. regarded as a target.
According to the website of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Shoigu told the participants about the progress of the Russian military’s special military operation in Ukraine that the Russian military is currently working with the local armed forces in Luhansk and Donetsk to expand control of the territory in the region.
He also said that Russia opens humanitarian corridors every day to safely evacuate civilians from combat areas.
Shoigu said that Mariupol, the largest industrial town and transportation hub in the Azov region, is under the control of the Russian army.
He emphasized that according to the instructions of the Supreme Commander of the Russian Armed Forces Putin, the armed personnel located in the Azov Steel Factory Industrial Zone in Mariupol were firmly blocked in the area.
Russia will continue to urge it to release civilians and lay down their weapons.
Shoigu pointed out that the United States and its NATO allies continue to send arms to Ukraine.
He warned that any NATO transport vehicles that enter Ukraine and carry weapons and supplies for the Ukrainian army will be regarded by Russia as a "legitimate" target.
He also stressed that the Russian Armed Forces will continue to carry out all tasks assigned by the Supreme Commander.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Konashenkov reported on the same day that the Russian army used long-range high-precision weapons to destroy Podborzi, Lviv, Voronets in western Ukraine, as well as Timkovo and Timkovo in central Ukraine. There are a total of 6 railway traction substations in the area of Piatihatka railway station.
They are alleged to have been used to deliver U.S. and European-made weapons and ammunition to Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region.
Russian President's Press Secretary Peskov said on the 4th that the news of the Western media that Russia will declare war on Ukraine and mobilize the whole people on the anniversary of the victory of the Great Patriotic War is not true and "purely nonsense".
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