Sergey Shoigu made an aerial inspection of the Russian superior place and spoke with commanders and troops, the ministry says
Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has visited the forces concerned in Moscow’s navy operation in Ukraine, the Defense Ministry stated on Sunday.
Shoigu made an aerial inspection of the Russia’ navy’s ahead positions and met with troops within the southern navy district, whom he “thanked […] for the exemplary execution of their combat tasks,” the ministry stated in an announcement.
At battle headquarters, Shoigu heard reviews from commanders on the present navy state of affairs on the bottom, with particular consideration paid to the group of complete provides for the troops, the lodging supplied to them within the discipline, and the operations of medical and rear models, based on the assertion.
The ministry didn’t say precisely when or the place the go to passed off, but it surely printed a clip of Shoigu’s helicopter flyby and an aerial view of a few of Russian fortifications.
On Friday, Shoigu was amongst plenty of the nation’s high navy officers who held a gathering with Vladimir Putin. The minister, together with the likes of the chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and the commander of Russian forces in Ukraine Sergey Surovikin, knowledgeable the president concerning the progress made within the marketing campaign within the neighboring nation.
The assembly adopted a warning by Putin final week that the navy operation in Ukraine “might be a lengthy process.” However, the top of state identified that Moscow had already secured a number of main features within the marketing campaign, referring to the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugnask, and the areas of Zaporozhye and Kherson, which turned a part of Russia in autumn as results of referendums. Ukraine and its Western backers have condemned these votes as illegitimate.
Putin insisted that Russia had no different selection however to ship its forces to Ukraine in late February because the Donbass republics wanted safety from Kiev. He additionally stated that the present battle had really began in 2014 when the US backed a nationalist coup, ousting Ukraine’s democratically elected president Viktor Yanukovich.
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