Russian air defense systems shot down one Su-25 aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk People's Republic, one Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter in the Kharkiv region and seven Ukrainian drones in a day, said Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry.

“Also, in the areas of the settlements of Malaya Kamyshevakha and Kamenka, Kharkiv region, two Ukrainian missiles of the Smerch multiple launch rocket system were intercepted,” he said.

At the same time, high-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit five command posts, as well as 29 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, while over 140 nationalists, nine tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, a battery of BM-21 multiple launch rocket systems were destroyed by air strikes. "Grad", six artillery pieces and mortars, 13 vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for various purposes and one OSA-AKM anti-aircraft missile system.

In addition, missile troops and artillery attacked 128 command posts, 169 firing positions of artillery and mortar batteries, as well as 623 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“Up to 200 nationalists were destroyed, as well as 24 pieces of weapons and military equipment, including a battery of 155-mm M777 howitzers, a 203-mm 2S7 Pion gun, a BM-21 combat vehicle of the Grad multiple launch rocket system and two ammunition depots ", - explained the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

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Advancement of DNR forces

Units of the Donetsk People's Republic blocked one of the supply channels for the garrison of Ukrainian militants in Avdiivka.

“The village of Novoselovka II was liberated from Ukrainian occupation.

The forces of the NM DPR took control of a section of the highway, finally cutting off the Avdiivka garrison from one of the two available supply routes, ”the agency said in a Telegram message.

It is also noted that the encirclement of the Ukrainian group in Avdiivka continues.

From this city, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are shelling Donetsk and Yasinovataya.

"No one doubts at all"

Secretary of the General Council of United Russia Andrey Turchak believes that the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions of Ukraine, as well as the liberated territories of the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics, will become part of the Russian Federation.

“The decision must be made by the residents themselves, and I am sure that they will accept it.

Therefore, I have no doubts that this region will be part of the Russian Federation.

People want protection, stability, so that finally, after eight years of the Bandera terror legalized by the West, the long-awaited and lasting peace comes against them,” Turchak said in an interview with RIA Novosti, speaking about the Kherson region.

He is also confident that the residents of Zaporozhye will support joining the Russian Federation as soon as the shelling stops in the region, a security zone appears and a referendum is organized.

In addition, according to Turchak, “no one has any doubts at all” that the DPR and LPR will become subjects of the Russian Federation.

Earlier, the authorities of Zaporozhye and Kherson regions declared their desire to become part of the Russian Federation.

A simplified procedure for admission to Russian citizenship has already been extended to residents of these regions.

International Tribunal for Ukrainian Nazis

The authorities of the Donetsk People's Republic intend to try ex-chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Alexander Turchinov, as well as former and current presidents of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and Vladimir Zelensky, within the framework of an international tribunal, said Elena Shishkina, chairman of the committee on criminal and administrative legislation of the People's Council of the DPR.

“With their signatures, they sent the Nazis to the Donbass to kill civilians,” she said in an interview with TASS.

According to the chairman of the committee of the People's Council, the DPR hopes that representatives of the EU countries and the United States will take part in the upcoming international tribunal: “Someone has already responded.

We will never get an answer from someone, because they, in fact, finance this criminal activity.

Shishkina also expressed confidence that foreign representatives who supported the Nazis in Ukraine would be punished.

In particular, we are talking about mercenaries who took part in the hostilities in the Donbass.

“They did not act here as military personnel, observing international conventions.

They acted here like terrorists, like Nazis, so there can be no talk of any exchange, ”she said, answering a question about the possibility of exchanging Britons Sean Pinner, Andrew Hill and Moroccan Saadoun Brahim, who face the death penalty in the DNR.

The possibility of exchanging members of the Azov nationalist battalion has also been ruled out.