Russia Loses 15 Tanks, 15 APVs and 8 Artillery Systems in a Day

Putin to station nuclear weapons in Belarus for first time in decades. Russian President Vladimir Putin is stationing nuclear weapons in Belarus for the first time in decades. The Russian leader announced the move to place tactical nuclear weapons in the neighboring Eastern European country on Saturday in response to the United Kingdom providing Ukraine with armor-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium, according to the Associated Press. Putin has falsely accused the UK of providing Ukraine weapons with a nuclear opponent. The decision to place tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus comes more than a year after Putin announced his invasion of Ukraine, which has previously sparked concern over the potential for escalation into a wider conflict, including the use of nuclear weapons. I would like to highlight that, without breaking our international commitments on not spreading nuclear weapons, we already helped our Belarus colleagues to re-equip their planes. Planes of Belarus Air Forces. Ten planes are ready for using this type of weapon, Putin said during a broadcast on Saturday. We already transferred to Belarus our well-known and very effective Iskonder complex, and it can also be a carrier. As Putin's war has faced widespread condemnation, Belarus has emerged as a key ally for Russia. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has publicly supported Putin, even allowing Russian troops to enter Ukraine from the Belarus-Ukraine border, providing closer access to the capital city of Kiev. The move sparked condemnation from anti-nuclear advocates, who have long criticized Russia's stance on nuclear weapons. Putin's announcement marks the first time since the 1990s that Russia will place nuclear weapons in the neighboring country, according to Reuters. Belarusian oppositionist leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya wrote on Twitter that placing Russian nuclear weapons within Belarus' borders violates the constitution of Belarus, and grossly contradicts the will of the Belarusian people. We urge the international community to demand from Russia to stop this threatening deployment, and impose adequate and severe sanctions on the regimes of Lukashenko, and Putin as outright threats to international peace and security, she tweeted. Putin's announcement marks the first time since the 1990s that Russia will place nuclear weapons in the neighboring country, according to Reuters. Meanwhile, former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul warned the development is not good in a Twitter post Saturday afternoon. After Volhynia was flattened, Russia loses 15 tanks, 15 APVs and 8 artillery systems in a day. The Ukrainian command reported that the city of Volhynia in eastern Ukraine has been completely flattened following heavy artillery shelling by Russia. On March 25, Nazary Kishak, commander of the machine gun unit of the Ukrainian 72nd Mechanized Brigade, said the enemy continues to use multiple rocket launchers, shelling not only the front line and the city of Volhynia, but also neighboring areas. The enemy is constantly shelling all settlements with large-caliber weapons. He added Volhynia has been completely flattened. Everything is destroyed, and the city is almost silent. Some civilians are helping the military. The police have evacuated the remaining people, especially children who have been living in the basement for nearly a month. On Sunday, writing in its daily update on Facebook, the general staff of Ukraine's armed forces said the 15 tanks had been taken out of action, alongside a further 15 armored personnel vehicles. Eight Russian artillery systems and two unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs, or drones, had also been destroyed in the previous 24 hours, according to Ukraine's military. By Kyiv's count, Sunday's update brings Russia's total tank losses to 3,595. Ukraine's military has repeatedly shared footage online of Russian tanks being targeted, and many Western analysts say Russia has sustained heavy tank losses at Ukraine's hands over the course of the war. Kyiv's count comes in higher than many Western estimates, including Dutch open-source verification outlet, Oryx. As of Sunday, it placed Russia's visually confirmed tank losses at 1,889. The website lists 1,137 as destroyed and 552 as captured by Ukrainian forces. In its daily report on Saturday, Russia's defense ministry said Ukraine had lost 8,399 tanks and other armored combat vehicles since February 24, 2022. On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would produce and upgrade a total of more than 1,600 tanks in the next three years. Russia will have at least three times the number of tanks at its disposal compared to Ukraine, Putin told state media. A drone carrying a 100-kilogram aviation bomb exploded in the Tula region. A 15-meter-wide crater was found at the site of the explosion, and the bomb's radius of damage was 500 meters. The drone strike came from the direction of the Kharkiv region. The drone flew at least 450 kilometers, about 400 of which were over Russian territory. As a result of the drone's explosion in the town of Kirovsk, at least three local residents were injured, initial reports said too, requiring medical assistance. The explosion was so powerful that explosive fragments were found within a 500-meter radius. At the site of the drone explosion in Kirovsk, a crater with an approximate diameter of about 15 meters and a depth of about 7-8 meters was discovered. Information about the destruction and damage to the infrastructure of the settlement and residential buildings is currently being clarified. However, judging by the video footage from the scene, both private houses and apartment buildings were affected. The unmanned aerial vehicle exploded only 30 kilometers from Tula, but it is not yet clear where exactly the unmanned aircraft, loaded with a 100-kilogram aviation bomb, was headed. Ukrainian military hit the Russian R-330ZH Zhytl EU system. Soldiers of the 92nd Mechanized Brigade destroyed the Russian R-330ZH Zhytl radio-frequency interference system. The video of the hit to the EU system was published on YouTube. A drone adjusted the artillery strike on the R-330ZH. A hit was recorded on a truck on the KAMAZ chassis, which is part of the system. The vehicle caught fire after several hits. A container with the R-330ZH Zhytl equipment was located next to the truck. The Russian R-330ZH Zhytl EU system is designed for automated detection, direction finding, and analysis of radio emission signals in the operating frequency range. Important Russian facility in Donbass was destroyed. Stormtroopers of the Kraken special unit, supported by artillery, eliminated the advanced enemy control post. In the Ukrainian special unit Kraken, they showed an attack carried out in Donbass, information about which could not be disclosed before. The attack was carried out in January 2023 in the Solodar direction, during which an important enemy object was destroyed, according to the Telegram channel of the special unit. Kraken notes, there are operations that we don't tell you about right away, because we are in that operational area. But over time we can partially cover some episodes. This is exactly the case. The special unit shared that its night assault group, supported by artillery, destroyed the enemy's forward control post. In Bakhmut, the den of Wagner stormtroopers was destroyed. Ukrainian border guards destroyed a cell of attack aircraft of the private military company Wagner in Bakhmut. This is stated in a message on the Facebook page of the State Border Service of Ukraine. It is noted that the air reconnaissance of the border guards recorded a cluster of attack aircraft of the Wagner PMK in Bakhmut. The State Security Service reported, following the departure of one of the groups, the soldiers established that the enemy was concentrating in the garage massif. After mortar attacks, the occupant cell was dispersed. As a result, the border guards destroyed at least 15 mercenaries. In the evening of March 26, the general staff of the armed forces reported that the Russians continue to storm the city of Bakhmut. It is worth noting that the enemy suffered huge losses during the battles for this settlement. Thank you for tuning into our video. You can click the like to support our TDTV global team, and hit that subscribe button now for more great content. We'll catch you at the next one!