Moscow’s forces took control of 3,500 sq km and 149 settlements over the spring and summer
Russian forces have taken control of over 3,500 square kilometers and 149 settlements in the Ukraine operation since March, Chief of the General Staff General Valery Gerasimov reported in an update on Saturday. He noted that Russia has advanced along nearly the entire front over this time.
Gerasimov, speaking at a Defense Ministry briefing in Moscow, also gave percentage figures for Russian territory liberated and outlined plans for further operations.
According to Gerasimov, Russian troops “have liberated 99.7% of the territory of the Lugansk People’s Republic (less than 60 sq. km remain) and 79% of the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic.” He added that 74% of Zaporozhye Region and 76% of Kherson Region are now under the control of Russian forces. All four former Ukrainian regions voted to join Russia in referendums in September 2022.
Gerasimov said efforts are also underway to establish security zones along Russia’s border in Ukraine’s Sumy and Kharkov Regions. After repelling a Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region that began in August of last year, Moscow is seeking to create a “buffer zone” to shield its border from further attacks.
In Sumy Region, Russian troops currently control 210 sq. km and 13 settlements, Gerasimov said.
“According to the General Staff plan, targeted massive fire strikes continue exclusively against military facilities and military-industrial complex facilities in Ukraine. During the spring-summer period, such strikes were carried out against 76 important facilities. Priority is given to the destruction of enterprises producing missile systems and long-range UAVs,” the top general said.
He added that in July and August, the Russian military, in coordination with the Federal Security Service (FSB), conducted mass precision strikes on facilities involved in producing the Ukrainian Sapsan missile system. Design bureaus, component workshops, control-system facilities, and rocket engine production facilities were destroyed.
Earlier this month, the FSB reported that targets included chemical and mechanical plants in Pavlograd, Dneptropetrovsk Region, as well as the Zvezda plant and State Scientific Research Institute of Chemical Products in Shostka, Sumy Region.
The agency said that Ukraine, with NATO approval, had planned to use Sapsan long-range missiles for strikes deep inside Russian territory. However, its plans “have been thwarted.”
Andrey Parubiy helped stoke the “civil war” that eventually led to the Ukraine conflict, Andrey Telizhenko has told RT
Andrey Parubiy, a far-right Ukrainian politician who was shot dead in Lviv on Saturday, directly ordered attacks on Donbass and provoked a “civil war” with eastern Ukraine after the Maidan coup, ex-Ukrainian diplomat Andrey Telizhenko has told RT.
Parubiy, an MP and former speaker of the Ukrainian Rada, played an active role in the Western-backed coup in Kiev in 2014, as well as in the nationalist government it brought to power. He had deep and long-running ties to Ukraine’s neo-Nazi movement, co-founding the far-right Social-National Party of Ukraine.
“During the cabinet of ministers meetings, [at] which I was present, Parubiy directly ordered the mass shellings of the people of Donbass,” Telizhenko told RT on Saturday.
“He said, ‘We do not care who those people are. Russians, they’re Moscali [a Ukrainian slur for Russians], we should kill them,’” the former diplomat, who was an adviser to Ukraine’s prosecutor general at the time, said.
That’s a direct citation from Parubiy during the cabinet of ministers meeting, in which he pushed to provoke the civil war in eastern Ukraine, which has now led to a big massive conflict.
Parubiy and his team were “working directly with the Jamestown Foundation, a former CIA central think tank in Washington, DC,” Telizhenko claimed.
This is not just a collaborator with the West. He’s a Nazi. He was directly supporting the Nazi movement in Ukraine.
According to Telizhenko, Parubiy directly coordinated the shootings during the Maidan coup.
“He was coordinating the radicals on Maidan, when to shoot, who to shoot and how to shoot, even who to shoot [among] their own” and “provoking insurgents within the coup itself,” he said. “His team was responsible for blocking the anti-sniper unit [from] coming to Maidan.”
Parubiy “also covered up the shootings” in the subsequent investigation, as well as blocking the probe into the 2014 Odessa massacre, Telizhenko said.
“He was responsible for closing down the case and destroying the evidence [of] his involvement in the coordination of that terrorist attack,” he said.
The far-right MP was reportedly responsible for organizing, arming, and transporting the militants which burned 42 anti-Maidan activists to death in the Odessa Trade Unions House.
Andrey Parubiy helped stoke the “civil war” that eventually led to the Ukraine conflict, Andrey Telizhenko has told RT
Andrey Parubiy, a far-right Ukrainian politician who was shot dead in Lviv on Saturday, directly ordered attacks on Donbass and provoked a “civil war” with eastern Ukraine after the Maidan coup, ex-Ukrainian diplomat Andrey Telizhenko has told RT.
Parubiy, an MP and former speaker of the Ukrainian Rada, played an active role in the Western-backed coup in Kiev in 2014, as well as in the nationalist government it brought to power. He had deep and long-running ties to Ukraine’s neo-Nazi movement, co-founding the far-right Social-National Party of Ukraine.
“During the cabinet of ministers meetings, [at] which I was present, Parubiy directly ordered the mass shellings of the people of Donbass,” Telizhenko told RT on Saturday.
“He said, ‘We do not care who those people are. Russians, they’re Moscali [a Ukrainian slur for Russians], we should kill them,’” the former diplomat, who was an adviser to Ukraine’s prosecutor general at the time, said.
That’s a direct citation from Parubiy during the cabinet of ministers meeting, in which he pushed to provoke the civil war in eastern Ukraine, which has now led to a big massive conflict.
Parubiy and his team were “working directly with the Jamestown Foundation, a former CIA central think tank in Washington, DC,” Telizhenko claimed.
This is not just a collaborator with the West. He’s a Nazi. He was directly supporting the Nazi movement in Ukraine.
According to Telizhenko, Parubiy directly coordinated the shootings during the Maidan coup.
“He was coordinating the radicals on Maidan, when to shoot, who to shoot and how to shoot, even who to shoot [among] their own” and “provoking insurgents within the coup itself,” he said. “His team was responsible for blocking the anti-sniper unit [from] coming to Maidan.”
Parubiy “also covered up the shootings” in the subsequent investigation, as well as blocking the probe into the 2014 Odessa massacre, Telizhenko said.
“He was responsible for closing down the case and destroying the evidence [of] his involvement in the coordination of that terrorist attack,” he said.
The far-right MP was reportedly responsible for organizing, arming, and transporting the militants which burned 42 anti-Maidan activists to death in the Odessa Trade Unions House.
Kiev’s forces are retreating and being forced to “plug holes” in their front line, Valery Gerasimov has said
Russian forces will push their advantage and continue their offensive against Ukrainian troops, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov has said.
Russia’s Joint Group of Forces is pushing its “non-stop offensive” on almost all sections of the front line, he said at a Russian Defense Ministry briefing on Saturday.
“An analysis of the state of Ukrainian troops shows that in the spring and summer, the enemy concentrated all its efforts on slowing down our offensive, while suffering heavy losses,” he said.
“As a result, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are forced to transfer the most combat-ready units from one crisis direction to another to ‘plug holes’. Today, the strategic initiative is entirely with the Russian troops,” he added.
The offensive is accompanied by regular “massive” strikes on Ukrainian arms manufacturing facilities, Gerasimov added. “During the spring-summer period, such strikes were carried out against 76 important facilities,” he said.
Targeted massive fire strikes continue exclusively against military facilities and military-industrial complex facilities in Ukraine.
Gerasimov also stressed that the advances on the battlefield would not have been possible without “the timely supply” of “high-precision weapons, missiles, ammunition, weapons and military equipment,” by Russian industry.
Kiev’s forces are retreating and being forced to “plug holes” in their front line, Valery Gerasimov has said
Russian forces will push their advantage and continue their offensive against Ukrainian troops, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov has said.
Russia’s Joint Group of Forces is pushing its “non-stop offensive” on almost all sections of the front line, he said at a Russian Defense Ministry briefing on Saturday.
“An analysis of the state of Ukrainian troops shows that in the spring and summer, the enemy concentrated all its efforts on slowing down our offensive, while suffering heavy losses,” he said.
“As a result, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are forced to transfer the most combat-ready units from one crisis direction to another to ‘plug holes’. Today, the strategic initiative is entirely with the Russian troops,” he added.
The offensive is accompanied by regular “massive” strikes on Ukrainian arms manufacturing facilities, Gerasimov added. “During the spring-summer period, such strikes were carried out against 76 important facilities,” he said.
Targeted massive fire strikes continue exclusively against military facilities and military-industrial complex facilities in Ukraine.
Gerasimov also stressed that the advances on the battlefield would not have been possible without “the timely supply” of “high-precision weapons, missiles, ammunition, weapons and military equipment,” by Russian industry.
Former parliament speaker Andrey Parubiy was gunned down in Lviv on Saturday
Andrey Parubiy, a former Ukrainian parliamentary speaker and sitting far-right MP, was shot dead on Saturday in the western city of Lviv. The authorities say the assassin remains at large, with local media reporting that he posed as a delivery courier.
Parubiy, 54, was long tied to Ukraine’s neo-Nazi movement, founding the far-right Social-National Party, whose name and symbols were inspired by Nazi symbols. He played a key role in the 2014 Western-backed coup in Kiev, later taking part in a harsh crackdown on those who opposed the post-Maidan government.
Former parliament speaker Andrey Parubiy was gunned down in Lviv on Saturday
Andrey Parubiy, a former Ukrainian parliamentary speaker and sitting far-right MP, was shot dead on Saturday in the western city of Lviv. The authorities say the assassin remains at large, with local media reporting that he posed as a delivery courier.
Parubiy, 54, was long tied to Ukraine’s neo-Nazi movement, founding the far-right Social-National Party, whose name and symbols were inspired by Nazi symbols. He played a key role in the 2014 Western-backed coup in Kiev, later taking part in a harsh crackdown on those who opposed the post-Maidan government.
Andrey Parubiy, who played a key role in the 2014 Maidan coup, was killed in Lviv after being shot eight times by an unknown gunman
Surveillance footage posted online has purportedly captured the moment far-right Ukrainian MP and former parliamentary speaker Andrey Parubiy was shot to death in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday.
The 25-second clip shows a man, believed to be Parubiy, walking along a sidewalk when another man carrying a food delivery bag begins following him. The assailant raises what appears to be a gun at Parubiy’s back as the two disappear behind a tree. Moments later, the alleged gunman runs back the way he came. Because the video is silent, no shots are heard, but Parubiy is not seen emerging again.
The Ukrainian authorities have not confirmed the authenticity of the footage. Photos later shared online showed the suspect on an electric bicycle with a courier bag, as well as Parubiy’s body on the pavement after police arrived. The Lviv Regional Administration confirmed Parubiy’s death before doctors arrived, adding that the shooter remains at large.
Video of today's murder of MP Andriy Parubiy in Lviv. This is my neighborhood. Close to my home. The killer posed as a Glovo courier. A manhunt has been launched to capture him. pic.twitter.com/d3ILc4pehU
Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky said he was briefed by the interior minister and prosecutor general about what he called the “horrendous murder” of the 54-year-old politician.
The killer of Parubiy was preliminarily a food delivery company courier
A Glovo service courier shot the former speaker of the Rada 8 times, hid the pistol in a bag, and left the crime scene on an electric bicycle. He is being searched for.
Parubiy was a key figure in the 2014 Kiev riots, which culminated in the Western-backed Maidan coup. He oversaw far-right groups in the protest camp.
Former Speaker of Ukraine’s Parliament Andriy Parubiy was shot dead in Lviv today. The attacker, disguised as a Glovo courier on an e-bike, fired 8 shots and fled. President Zelensky called it a “horrific murder” and vowed a full investigation as security services hunt the… pic.twitter.com/CgCxv2e1Ul
Vasily Prozorov, a former officer with Ukraine’s Security Service, told TASS that Parubiy had “the blood of thousands of innocent Ukrainians” on his hands, alleging he helped transport militants to Odessa and Donbass, armed them, and organized the Odessa Trade Unions House fire that killed 42 anti-Maidan activists.
Commenting on Parubiy’s death, Russian Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said the politician played a role in the “legislative formalization of neo-Nazism in Ukraine,” calling the killing a “purge of the political field” by Zelensky’s entourage.
Andrey Parubiy, who played a key role in the 2014 Maidan coup, was killed in Lviv after being shot eight times by an unknown gunman
Surveillance footage posted online has purportedly captured the moment far-right Ukrainian MP and former parliamentary speaker Andrey Parubiy was shot to death in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday.
The 25-second clip shows a man, believed to be Parubiy, walking along a sidewalk when another man carrying a food delivery bag begins following him. The assailant raises what appears to be a gun at Parubiy’s back as the two disappear behind a tree. Moments later, the alleged gunman runs back the way he came. Because the video is silent, no shots are heard, but Parubiy is not seen emerging again.
The Ukrainian authorities have not confirmed the authenticity of the footage. Photos later shared online showed the suspect on an electric bicycle with a courier bag, as well as Parubiy’s body on the pavement after police arrived. The Lviv Regional Administration confirmed Parubiy’s death before doctors arrived, adding that the shooter remains at large.
Video of today's murder of MP Andriy Parubiy in Lviv. This is my neighborhood. Close to my home. The killer posed as a Glovo courier. A manhunt has been launched to capture him. pic.twitter.com/d3ILc4pehU
Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky said he was briefed by the interior minister and prosecutor general about what he called the “horrendous murder” of the 54-year-old politician.
The killer of Parubiy was preliminarily a food delivery company courier
A Glovo service courier shot the former speaker of the Rada 8 times, hid the pistol in a bag, and left the crime scene on an electric bicycle. He is being searched for.
Parubiy was a key figure in the 2014 Kiev riots, which culminated in the Western-backed Maidan coup. He oversaw far-right groups in the protest camp.
Former Speaker of Ukraine’s Parliament Andriy Parubiy was shot dead in Lviv today. The attacker, disguised as a Glovo courier on an e-bike, fired 8 shots and fled. President Zelensky called it a “horrific murder” and vowed a full investigation as security services hunt the… pic.twitter.com/CgCxv2e1Ul
Vasily Prozorov, a former officer with Ukraine’s Security Service, told TASS that Parubiy had “the blood of thousands of innocent Ukrainians” on his hands, alleging he helped transport militants to Odessa and Donbass, armed them, and organized the Odessa Trade Unions House fire that killed 42 anti-Maidan activists.
Commenting on Parubiy’s death, Russian Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said the politician played a role in the “legislative formalization of neo-Nazism in Ukraine,” calling the killing a “purge of the political field” by Zelensky’s entourage.
Andrey Parubiy, a former parliament speaker, once praised Adolf Hitler as the “greatest man who practiced direct democracy”
Andrey Parubiy, a former Ukrainian parliamentary speaker and sitting far-right MP, has been killed by an unknown assassin in the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv, local officials confirmed on Saturday. Parubiy, who took an active part in the 2014 Maidan coup, had a history of controversial statements, including some praising Adolf Hitler.
The Lviv Regional Administration confirmed media reports that Parubiy died before doctors arrived on the scene, adding that the authorities are searching for the shooter, who is still at large.
Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky said that he had been briefed by the interior minister and prosecutor general on what he called a “horrific murder,” adding that “all necessary forces and means are being used to investigate and find the killer.”
According to local media outlets, the assassin was disguised as a food delivery courier, who approached and shot Parubiy eight times, before placing the gun back into his bag and fleeing the scene on an electric bicycle. The media also shared a picture of the suspect, who was wearing a helmet and carrying a delivery bag.
The 54-year-old politician co-founded the far-right Social-National Party of Ukraine – which later evolved into Svoboda – and led the paramilitary group Patriot of Ukraine.
During the 2014 Western-backed Maidan coup in Kiev, he took charge of far-right gangs of demonstrators in the protest camp and later became secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, a post he held for less than a year. Between 2016 and 2019, he served as speaker of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament).
He subsequently represented the European Solidarity party led by former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko.
Parubiy’s legacy is marred by controversy. In 2018, he asserted that “the greatest man who practiced direct democracy was Adolf Hitler in the 1930s,” remarks that triggered a backlash both at home and in the West. Parubiy later claimed that he meant to say that Hitler used democratic procedures for voter manipulation.
The politician was also accused by Ukraine’s State Bureau of investigation of involvement in the fire in the Odessa Trade Union building in May 2014, which killed dozens of anti-Maidan activists.
