“We have expanded control over the Donbass, control over the Lugansk region is coming to an end,” Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

“More than 1,900 Ukrainians have surrendered at the Azovstal plant, and military threats on our western borders are intensifying due to the actions of Washington and NATO,” Shoigu said.

He pointed out that “Finland and Sweden’s bid for NATO membership poses a threat to Russia.”

It is noteworthy that yesterday the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, said that Russian air-launched missiles hit 7 command posts of Ukrainian forces, as well as 11 artillery depots in the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic.

Konashenkov pointed out that a battery of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems was destroyed in the Nikolaev region (south), and a battery of Buk-M1 missiles in Donetsk. “Russian aviation attacked two command posts and 58 areas of concentration of Ukrainian forces and military equipment, as a result of airstrikes, more than 340 ultra-nationalists were killed, 62 units of military equipment were disabled,” the agency’s interlocutor said. .