The Russian Ministry of Defense updated the war report, and the Russian army officially announced the use of hypersonic weapons in Ukraine for the first time
At about 20:30 p.m. Moscow time on March 19, Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, released an update on the special military operations of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine. Konashenkov announced that since the start of military operations on February 24, the Russian army has destroyed a total of 1,443 tanks and armored vehicles, 564 artillery and mortars, 147 multiple rocket launchers, 1,248 special military vehicles, and 201 drones.
The Russian Defense Ministry released a screenshot of the drone operation video on the video website Rutube, showing the Humvee of the Ukrainian army destroying the squad in the woods. The Russian Ministry of Defense uses its VK account to continuously divert traffic to the Rutube channel, which currently has only four digits of subscriptions
Russian air defense forces shot down 5 Ukrainian drones during the day on the 19th, including 1 TB-2 drone made in Turkey. The Russian military did not disclose the photos of the wreckage of the TB-2 drone, and the number of reported destructions of the UAV is far more than the 12 that the Ukrainian army claims to have.
The Russian army dispatched tactical air force, army aviation and unmanned aerial vehicles, and destroyed a total of 59 Ukrainian military targets in the daytime operation on the 19th, including 2 multiple rocket launchers, 3 command posts, 2 radar stations, as well as 2 artillery ammunition depots and 51 equipment assembly points in the Bogodhukh region in the western Kharkiv Oblast. The Russian military dispatched the "Outpost-RU" unmanned aerial vehicle to destroy the radar equipment equipped with an S-300 anti-aircraft missile system of the Ukrainian army in the Vypertsov region, 60 kilometers north of Kiev.
In contrast, according to Konashenkov's morning report at a press conference, the results of the Night Battle of the Russian Aviation Appear to be richer: on the night of the 19th, the Russians destroyed a total of 69 Ukrainian military targets, including a brigade-level command post in the Bucha region, 3 sets of S-300 and 1 set of "Beech-M1" a total of 4 sets of air defense systems and other targets.
The Russian military previously showed miG-31K aircraft carrying a "dagger" hypersonic missile data picture
Konashenkov mentioned that the Russian army used the "dagger" hypersonic air-launched ballistic missile system on the 18th to destroy a large underground missile and aviation ammunition depot of the Ukrainian army located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. It is reported that this ammunition depot belongs to the 136th Missile and Ammunition Support Center, built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s to preserve nuclear weapons, located in the Jeryagen region of western Ukraine, less than 100 kilometers from Romania. Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Ignatius confirmed the attack on the ammunition depot, but did not mention details of the Russian weapons.
The Jeriatin region of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast on the map, which is a straight-line distance from Kiev is even farther than Belarus
The Russian military said that a ukrainian national security agency surrendered to the officer who broke the news that the "Azov battalion" planned to carry out terrorist attacks on diplomatic targets of the United States and Western countries
Konashenkov reported at a press conference that an officer of the General Directorate of the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions of Ukraine's State Security Service voluntarily surrendered to the Russian army. During his work, the officer was directly involved in and organized training for sabotage squads and terrorist organizations in order to operate in areas under the actual control of the Russian army. After the surrender, the officer handed over the details of all those involved in sabotage in Donbas. Konashenkov stressed that relevant personnel who voluntarily renounce criminal activities and report to the Russian army in a timely manner can reduce criminal responsibility.
After the blockade of the US Embassy in Ukraine, the Situation after the blockade of the US Embassy in Ukraine was circulated on social networking sites, and before the Russian military carried out special military operations, the United States and many other Western countries had sent their embassies to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv
In addition to this, Konashenkov also reported another plan, citing information from the surrendered officer. The surrendered officer, who did not disclose his name or specific position, told Russian forces that militants from the Ukrainian nationalist group Battalion Azov were planning to carry out terrorist acts against U.S. and other Western diplomats and facilities in Lviv.
Screenshot of the introduction page of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, its address in Lviv was not announced, and the name of the embassy has always been "U.S. Embassy in Kiev"
Konashenkov stressed that the Ukrainian authorities are fully aware of the plan of the "Azov Battalion" but have not taken any action to stop the "Azov Battalion", because the Ukrainian authorities plan to describe the terrorist attack as a "targeted strike by the Russian army", thus increasing the pressure on NATO countries to set up a "no-fly zone" over Ukraine and provide more weapons to the Ukrainian army.
The Ukrainians insist that civilians have never taken any supplies from the Russians, but the outrageous things in the Ukrainian reports do not stop there
The Ukrainian Ministry of National Defense released a video of the war report of the day on Facebook on the 19th, saying that it was not attacked when civilians were evacuated from the Bucha region in western Kiev Oblast on the same day. But in the same video, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry proudly counted the fact that the troops shot down the Russian "Dot-U" missile with the "Stinger" missile as a war report of the day. The Ukrainian army has previously published this almost credible message on multiple websites, saying that Ukrainian soldiers used "Stinger" shoulder-mounted anti-aircraft missiles in the Luhansk region to shoot down the Russian "Dot-U" ballistic missile to save civilian lives.
Ukrainian Ministry of Defense claimed that the "Stinger" shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile shot down the Russian military "Dot-U" ballistic missile video screenshot. In general, ballistic missiles in flight are extremely fast, and it is almost impossible for shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles to shoot them down
The war report video released by the Ukrainian General Staff on the 19th declared that the Russian army was unsuccessful in the open battle, so it chose to continue to intimidate the local residents; in the settlements of the Chernihiv region, the Russian army tried to distribute "humanitarian assistance", but the civilians, even under pressure, never took any supplies from the Russian army; the Russian army is trying to take similar measures in Kiev and Kherson Oblast. In the same war report video, the Ukrainian army claimed that the Russian army was currently losing quite a lot of losses, and the Crimean naval infantry had lost 90% of its living strength.
The first dynamic of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the 19th in VK is to release a video titled "Do not give up their own people", showing that the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations distributed food-based materials to civilians under the protection of the Russian army, and there are many noodles and canned fish in the food
In a video of the meeting on the humanitarian situation released on the evening of March 19 on the website of the Russian Ministry of Defense, General Mizintsev, head of the Russian State Defense Command Center, said that the Russian military planned and implemented 52 humanitarian material distribution operations on the same day, including 280 tons of long-term storage of food, medicines and essential supplies, involving Zaporozhye Oblast, Kiev Oblast, Kharkiv Oblast, Kherson Oblast, Chernigov Oblast and other places.
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