The situation at the front is and will be difficult, since there are still many Russian occupiers. However, they have already lost the initiative, Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov wrote on Facebook..

" However, most people know that the 16th day of resistance to the Russian invasion has begun.. The situation at the front is and will be difficult. There are many Russian invaders. For now. But they've already lost the initiative. Our soldiers carry out active defense and carry out successful counterattacks in all directions..

“The video of the flight of Russian tank units near Brovary was captured all over the world as the real state of the “second army” of the planet. The once famous Taman division, created at one time in Kharkov, seems to end its " Like Kantemirovskaya,"

He also noted that in the Chernihiv region, the Ukrainian military has significantly increased with captured Russian armored vehicles, and the air force continues to destroy aircraft of the invaders..

“Having received a rebuff on the battlefield, the enemy intensifies terrorist attacks, kills civilians. Systematic attacks on Kharkov, an attack from the sky on the Dnieper, Lutsk, Ivano-Frankivsk and other cities are proof of this. Appropriate work will be carried out on all war criminals, not a single one will hide. Very difficult situation in Mariupol. The enemy is holding the city hostage, arranging an act of genocide,” Reznikov said..

The Minister of Defense also stressed that the Ukrainian authorities are trying to provide humanitarian corridors, but it is very difficult, since the occupiers are bombing cities even during official negotiations..

In addition, according to Reznikov, the enemy is trying to deploy a police infrastructure in the temporarily occupied southern territories of Ukraine..

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Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has fired 328 missiles at Ukrainian cities and villages, said Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny.

Zaluzhny said that the aggressor country uses missiles of the Iskander, Caliber, dot U and X-class missiles. The Kremlin launched 219 missile strikes on populated areas.

The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, believes that Russia's war against Ukraine showed that Russian troops cannot capture cities, so they bomb them, as they did in Syria and Chechnya.