The head of the department, Sergei Shoigu, announced these personnel changes at a meeting held at the Russian Ministry of Defense.
“Colleagues, congratulations! You understand the enormous responsibility that falls on your shoulders. And I hope you can cope with the tasks that the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and Of course, the country has prepared it,” Shoigu said.
Traditionally, the meeting began by analyzing the situation in the Northern Military Region area. According to the minister, after the failure of the counteroffensive, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to gain a foothold in certain lines and positions. But the enemy did not achieve its objectives in any of the areas of the special operation. In addition, our troops continue to push Ukrainian formations to the west.
“Thanks to the courage and professionalism of our military personnel, during the last month in the Donetsk People’s Republic the settlements of Nevelskoye, Orlovka, Tonenkoye, Krasnoye and the village of Mirnoye in the Zaporozhye region were liberated. In total, since the At the beginning of the year, 403 square kilometers of the territory of the new regions of the Russian Federation came under our control,” Shoigu reported.
Over the past month, the settlements of Nevelskoye, Orlovka, Tonenkoye and Krasnoye were liberated in the DPR. In the Zaporozhye region – the village of Mirnoye
He said that during this time the combat potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has decreased. Since January, the enemy has lost more than 80 thousand servicemen, 14 thousand units of various weapons, including more than 1,200 tanks and other armored combat vehicles.
– Despite the lack of results on the military contact line, kyiv is still trying to convince its Western backers of its ability to resist the Russian army. To achieve this, it is trying to transfer hostilities to the territory of our country, resorting to acts of terrorism and bombings against civilians,” said the Minister of Defense.
Our army reacts asymmetrically to such crimes committed by Ukrainian militants. According to Shoigu, 190 group attacks and two mass attacks were carried out in Ukraine with high-precision weapons and drones in March. As a result, military and energy infrastructure facilities were damaged.
At the meeting, Shoigu confirmed that the spring 2024 recruits will not participate in the Northern Military District.
The Minister paid special attention to the timely dismissal and organized the sending home of those soldiers, sergeants and foremen who had completed the established period of compulsory military service.
At the meeting, the possibility of optimizing the construction schedule of small missiles and patrol ships was discussed, which should increase the combat potential of our Navy.
The conversation was mainly about ships carrying long-range precision weapons. In particular, about small missile carriers of the Karakurt type.
Sergei Shoigu reminded: the lead ship of this series, the Cyclone, is already successfully operating in the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
“By the end of the year, the Zelenodolsk plant named after AM Gorky should deliver three more ships of this type to sailors,” the minister reported, “the company is also mass producing the patrol boats of project 22160. Construction The fifth of them, the Victor the Great, is in its final stage “destined for the Black Sea Fleet.”
One of the priority areas for the Minister was the development of a network of military ranges and the provision of training facilities to troops. This is important, among other things, for solving SVO problems.
“If in 2012 we had no more than a hundred training ranges, today there are 240. They allow us to solve the entire spectrum of combat training tasks, including troop groupings in special operations zones,” Shoigu noted.
Two polygons have already been built in LPR and DPR. Five more will be installed by the end of the year. The training network will receive about 200 simulators for training BMP-2M crews with the Berezhok combat module, the Terminator tank support combat vehicle and the T-90M Proryv tanks.
