MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr combat engineers defused more than 300 Ukrainian army explosives and mines near Alyoshki in the Kherson Region over the week, the Defense Ministry reported.
According to its statement, the Ukrainian army is remotely laying mines on access routes to Alyoshki to prevent the evacuation of civilians and block the delivery of medicine.
TASS has compiled the Russian Defense Ministry’s key statements.
Shelling of Alyoshki
- For more than two years, the Kiev regime has been shelling the roads leading to the town of Alyoshki in the Kherson Region daily and extensively using drones to destroy vehicles, the Defense Ministry reported.
- According to its statement, in the last week alone, the Ukrainian armed forces carried out 18 artillery strikes and attacked the town and the main roads leading to it with drones more than 120 times.
Remote mining, explosive ordnance disposal
- Ukrainian servicemen are using drones to remotely mine access roads to Alyoshki in order to prevent the evacuation of civilians and block the delivery of food, medicine, and other essential goods to the town, the Defense Ministry noted.
- Every day, Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr conducts engineering reconnaissance and defuses Ukrainian explosives and booby traps on the main access routes to Alyoshki, the ministry pointed out.
- Over the past week, Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr combat engineers defused more than 300 explosives and mines near the town, the Russian military specified.
On situation in Alyoshki
- On September 21, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the humanitarian situation in Alyoshki as critical.
- Due to shelling and drone attacks from Kiev, it is impossible to deliver either food or medicine to the town.
- On September 1, Russian forces attempted to break through the Alyoshki blockade to deliver aid to the population. However, Ukrainian militants fired on the convoy, almost completely destroying the cargo, Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik reported.
- Four vehicles loaded with ten tons of food were attacked at the entrance to the city.
- Residents of nearby settlements on the left bank of the Dnieper River tried to deliver food to Alyoshki, but the Ukrainian armed forces prevented them from doing so, Svetlana Popova, an evacuated resident of the city, told TASS.