Month: April 2022

Monday 18 April 2022, Day 54 –  Putin bestowed an honorary title on a brigade accused by Ukraine of committing war crimes in the town of Bucha. He signed a decree giving the 64th Motor Rifle Brigade the title of Guards for their defense of the “motherland and state interests” and praised the “mass heroism… Continue reading The Madness of Putin Part 56 – Day 54

Sunday 17 April, Day 53 – Russia claimed that it had destroyed an ammunitions factory near the settlement of Brovary in Kyiv region using high-precision, air-launched missiles. https://vk.com/video720515176_456239032 https://www.facebook.com/113792594627373/videos/515564273596384

Saturday 16 April 2022, Day 52 – Russia claimed to have destroyed production buildings of an armoured vehicle plant in Kyiv and a military repair facility in Mykolaiv using high-precision air-launched long-range weapons. Russia also claimed to have downed one Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft near the city of Izium. Russian officials said that Major General Vladimir… Continue reading The Madness of Putin Part 54 – Day 52

Friday 15 April 2022 – The Russian Defence Ministry claimed that its S-400 defense systems had shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter, which was allegedly used to attack the Klimovo village in the Bryansk region of Russia. The Russian Defence Ministry also claimed that the Ilyich Steel and Iron Plant in Mariupol had been “liberated” from… Continue reading The Madness of Putin Part 53

Thursday 14 April 2022. –  Russia claimed that two heavily-armed Ukrainian combat helicopters entered Russian airspace and conducted at least six airstrikes on residential buildings in Bryansk Oblast. The governor of the Belgorod region claimed that a village there was also attacked, but that no one was injured. Russian authorities accused Ukraine of shelling the… Continue reading The Madness of Putin Part 52

Wednesday 13 April 2022 – According to a statement from the Russian Defence Ministry, 1,026 soldiers of Ukraine’s 36th Marine Brigade, including 162 officers, surrendered in the besieged port city of Mariupol. However, the Ukrainian Defence Ministry said it had no information about the surrender. Later that day, Denys Prokopenko, the commander of the Azov… Continue reading The Madness of Putin Part 51

Tuesday 12 April 2022 – In a Telegram statement, the Azov battalion claimed that Russian forces dropped “a poisonous substance of unknown origin” from an unmanned aerial vehicle onto Ukrainian military and civilians in Mariupol. Petro Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol said that city officials were awaiting additional information from military forces,… Continue reading The Madness of Putin Part 50

Monday 11 April 2022 – The Russian Defence Minister claimed that high-precision sea-based Kalibr missiles on the southern outskirts of Dnipro destroyed equipment from a S-300 anti-aircraft missile division supplied to Ukraine by a European country, which was hidden in a hangar. Four S-300 launchers and up to 25 Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel were also… Continue reading The Madness of Putin Part 49

Sunday 10 April 2022 – Satellite images showed an eight-mile-long (about 13 km) Russian military convoy moving south through the eastern Ukraine town of Velykyi Burluk towards Kharkiv. Valentyn Reznichenko, the head of Dnipro’s military administration, claimed that Dnipro Airport, as well as the infrastructure around it, had been completely destroyed by Russian shelling. Russia’s… Continue reading The Madness of Putin Part 48