This is the second such announced visit in less than a week, a sign of Moscow’s desire for greater control over its troops. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited the front line in Ukraine to inspect his army positions, his ministry said Thursday, without specifying the place or date of this visit.
“On the front line”, Sergei Shoigu “verified the conditions of deployment of military personnel and equipment” and “inspected the positioning areas of military units, the conditions of accommodation and heating of personnel,” the ministry said on Telegram, accompanying his message with a video of the minister.
the fight continues
On the ground, fighting and shelling continued on Thursday with at least one dead and 14 wounded across the country over the past day, according to the Ukrainian presidency.
On the Russian side, the former head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Dmitri Rogozin, was injured in a Ukrainian attack on a hotel in Donetsk, a stronghold of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, and will have to undergo surgery.
According to Moscow, this attack, which also killed and wounded several people, was “probably” carried out with a French Caesar cannon, several of which were sent to Kyiv via Paris.
The only Russian aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, currently under repair in the Far North, was the victim of a fire that left no fatalities, Russian news agencies reported.
Source: BFM TV
