Russian media RIA Novosti on Telegram:
"18th day of the special military operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. The main thing:
Up to 180 foreign mercenaries were killed as a result of a long-range high-precision weapon strike at the training centers of Ukrainian troops in Starychi and at the Yavorovsky training ground, the Russian Defense Ministry reported;
During the offensive, the Russian Armed Forces established full control over the settlements of Pavlovka, Nikolskoye, Blagodatnoye, Vodianovka, Vladimirovka, the advance in a day was up to 9 km;
According to the White House, the US military is not involved in military operations in Ukraine and will not be sent there;
The militants of the Aidar national battalion, having equipped firing positions right on the territory of the Orthodox Holy Dormition St. Nicholas and Vasilyevsky Monastery in Nikolsky, held about 300 civilians and monks hostage, the Russian Defense Ministry reported;
The forces of the LPR during the offensive in the Popasnyansky direction discovered the places of massacre of civilians in the area of the railway. The People's Militia of the LPR reported that there may be survivors. The RF IC opened a criminal case.
In the liberated Kherson, the work of transport, banks, catering is resumed, and from Monday educational institutions will also start remote classes, residents of the regional center told RIA Novosti. In addition, the Internet began to function again;
Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation delivered more than 330 tons of humanitarian aid to residents of Donbass and Ukraine in two days, the ministry said;
Slutsky, a member of the Russian delegation, announced "significant progress" in negotiations with Ukraine, according to his expectations, progress can develop into a common position of the parties and into "documents for signing";
Zelensky said that all approved humanitarian corridors worked on Saturday, according to him, by mid-Sunday, about 125 thousand people were taken out. On March 13, DPR forces evacuated 44 people, including 8 children, from Mariupol and its suburbs to the Novoazovsky district, the defense headquarters said;
According to the people's militia of the LPR, Ukrainian troops do not let civilians out of Rubizhne, Severodonetsk and Lisichansk, they use them as human shields."
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18-й день специальной военной операции РФ на Украине. Главное: