The Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of Russia said that the Russian military destroyed most of the equipment provided to Ukraine by NATO countries.

This is stated in the publication of the press bureau of the SVR.

According to the agency, during the period of aggression against Russia since December 2021, NATO countries transferred 1,170 air defense systems, 440 tanks, 1,510 infantry fighting vehicles, 655 artillery systems to Ukrainian troops.

Along with this, Kyiv received 9.8 thousand missiles for MLRS, 609 thousand anti-tank rounds and 1 million 206 thousand shells.

“Most of the military equipment provided by the West was destroyed by Russian troops,” the Foreign Intelligence Service concluded.

Shelling of Donbass

The representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) announced 47 cases of firing by Ukrainian troops over the past day.

During shelling, the enemy used Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 152 and 155 mm artillery, and a 120 mm mortar.

Issued 246 units of various ammunition.

Donetsk was under fire, as well as several other settlements of the republic, including Zaitsevo, Gorlovka, Mayorsk, Makeevka and others.

A woman died as a result of the shelling.

12 people were injured, including a girl born in 2014 and a teenager born in 2005.

25 houses and 16 civil infrastructure facilities were damaged.

On the morning of February 20, shelling continued.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine at least twice fired at Donetsk and a number of other settlements of the DPR from artillery.

In turn, the representative office of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) in the JCCC stated that no shelling of settlements was recorded over the past day.

The head of the Investigative Committee - about the crimes of Ukraine in the Donbass

Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin in an interview with TASS said that since 2014, about 5 thousand residents of Donbass have become victims of the crimes of the Ukrainian side.

“According to the investigation, as a result of the criminal actions of the Ukrainian side, almost 14,000 residents of Donbass suffered in nine years.

Of these, about 5,000 were killed and almost 9,000 were injured,” the head of the Investigative Committee said.

According to Bastrykin, more than 120,000 residents of Donbass have been recognized as victims as part of the investigation of criminal cases on the crimes of the Kyiv regime.

He also noted that investigators record significant damage from Western weapons used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Bastrykin mentioned the HIMARS systems, recalling that the deliveries of these systems were accompanied by statements about their accuracy.

“When we see the craters from these missiles and fragments of ammunition near civilian objects, the claims of their accuracy only once again confirm the intent to harm civilians,” he said.

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In addition, the head of the Investigative Committee said that the Russian side had collected evidence of the involvement of the military and political leadership of Ukraine in the genocide of the Russian-speaking population of Donbass.

According to him, over the nine years of work, thousands of volumes of materials have been collected confirming the commission of crimes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the national battalions.

“Reliably established and documented by the investigation, the facts of the atrocities committed become the basis of an objective and motivated accusation, which is devoid of any bias and ambiguity.

All of them directly demonstrate the involvement of the top military and political leadership of Ukraine in the genocide of the Russian-speaking population of Donbass,” Bastrykin said.

Foreign mercenaries and strengthening of the fortification of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

A military expert, retired Lieutenant Colonel of the Luhansk People's Republic Andrei Marochko, said that foreign mercenaries were found in the Kremennaya area.

“During the analysis of the intercepted data, it was established that a contingent of foreign mercenaries was deployed near Kremennaya, most of which are Polish citizens.

It has also been established that there are women among the mercenaries," Marochko said, citing his own sources.

In addition, he spoke about the increase in the number of fortifications and the contingent of Ukrainian troops in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Chasov Yar.

According to him, the Ukrainian side is actively mining approaches to its positions and erecting engineering structures.

In addition, Marochko said, remote mining of wooded areas is being carried out southeast of the settlement with prohibited anti-personnel mines PFM-1 (“Petal”).