The operation in the area of the Gostomel airfield was also successfully completed. According to the Ministry of Defense, in Kiev, on Shevchenko Square, Grad installations were deployed to strike at the airport. Such a deployment of weapons, the department notes, was chosen to provoke return fire on local residents. This tactic, also used by terrorists in the Middle East, of using the population as human shields, is a war crime. However, the Ministry of Defense turned to Ukrainian citizens, Russia is doing everything for the safety of citizens and will not strike at city blocks.
It also became known about the successful advance of the LPR and DPR detachments in the north-Donetsk direction and in the direction of Volnovakha deep into the defense of nationalist battalions, while, according to the department, the Ukrainian Armed Forces practically do not participate in hostilities, only Nazi associations offer resistance.