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The Russian military continues its effective massive precision strikes on the military facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). In the last days of May, Moscow officials revealed the interim results of the ongoing military operations and explained the true reason behind the recent Kiev’s attempts to launch attacks on the Russian territory which have no military goals but aimed at hiding Ukrainian losses from the public.
Commenting on today’s attack by Ukrainian UAVs in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed that two days ago Russian forces struck at the headquarters of the military intelligence of Ukraine (GUR). In response, Kiev targeted Russian civilians in Moscow.
“In response, as you know, the Kiev regime has chosen a different path. The path of attempts to intimidate Russia, intimidate Russian citizens and attacks on residential buildings,” the president said.
This is a clear sign of terrorist activity, he added. According to Putin, the recent drone attacks are “attempts to provoke” a response from Moscow, Kiev provokes it “to tit-for-tat response.”
The strike on the headquarters of the GUR are confirmed by the footage from Kiev. Traffic was blocked on the Havana Bridge which links Rybalsky Island, where the intelligence headquarters is located, with Podol. The day before, the Russian strike was reported in the area but Ukrainian officials did not confirm it.
Meanwhile, Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu held the conference with the leadership of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. He assumed the results of the military operation in Ukraine in MAY, 2023. The most important claims included:
- The Russian military hit another Patriot air defense system in Kiev;
- Over the past month, the AFU lost over 16 thousand servicemen, 16 aircraft, five helicopters, 466 UAVs and more than 400 tanks;
- Russian troops intercepted 29 Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles in a month;
- In addition, 196 HIMARS rockets, 16 HARM missiles were intercepted;
- “Western curators” demand from Kiev to launch a counteroffensive, despite the heavy losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
- The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are tracking the ways of supply of Western weapons to Ukraine and are striking at them;
- Large Western arms depots in Khmelnitsky, Ternopol, and Mykolaiv were destroyed in recent days.
