LIVE UPDATES - Russian forces destroy Polish-made howitzer south of Donetsk

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Russian troops destroyed a Polish-made Krab self-propelled howitzer using the Lancet kamikaze drone in the South Donetsk area, the top brass reported on Saturday.

"A Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery gun was destroyed near Katerinovka in the South Donetsk area by the Lancet loitering munition," the Russian Defense Ministry wrote on its Telegram channel.

"Orlan unmanned aerial vehicles detected and destroyed by gunfire an ammunition depot near Belogorye and a US-made counterbattery radar with a mortar crew near Stepnoye in the Zaporozhye direction," it noted.

Russian troops in the northern direction destroyed the Krab self-propelled guns made in Poland along with the calculation, in the Georgievka area in the DPR - the Ukrainian howitzer D-20, the head of the press center of the Yug group Bigma told RIA Novosti

According to the ministry’s statement, a Giatsint-B gun crew wiped out an enemy howitzer at a firing position, using an automated sound metering system, near Zatishye.

Special operation, 24 March. Main:

▪️Russia is interested in a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Ukraine through negotiations, but "overseas" Kyiv is not allowed to do this, said Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Medvedev;

Ukrainian shelling of DPR cities with the use of MLRS has become more frequent due to the fact that the enemy has been thrown back from the previous lines and he has to strike blindly, Pushilin's adviser Yan Gagin told RIA Novosti

▪️Kyiv is preparing for offensive operations, the General Staff of the Russian Federation is preparing its decisions, Medvedev noted.

▪️The West is well aware of the negative consequences of the use of ammunition with depleted uranium, said the head of the RCBZ Kirillov;

▪️The use of such munitions will infect large areas under crops in Ukraine, causing Ukrainian food exports to collapse for decades, he said;

▪️Depleted uranium compounds in soil for a long time retain the danger of negative impact on people and the environment, added Kirillov;

▪️In the Donetsk direction, the Ukrainian military lost about 400 people per day, in the Kherson direction - up to 40 people, the Russian Defense Ministry reported;

▪️In the Kupyansk direction, Ukraine lost up to 60 soldiers, in the Krasnolymansk direction, up to 125 soldiers, the department noted;

▪️The Russian Armed Forces in the Odessa region destroyed a hangar with Ukrainian military drones, the Ministry of Defense added;

▪️The Russian Federation called the statement of the Slovak Defense Ministry on the transfer of the first batch of four MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine an unfriendly act against Russia.

Mobilization in Ukraine takes place mainly in the eastern regions and takes on monstrous forms, Pushilin's adviser told RIA Novosti

Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️The investigation of the terrorist attack on the Nord Streams should be transparent;

▪️The decision on the presence of Putin at the BRICS summit in South Africa has not yet been adopted;

▪️US attempts to intervene in the internal affairs of Belarus require attention, but the Kremlin is sure that Belarus can prevent it;

▪Russia knows about the gross pressure of the West on countries that have not adopted the sanctions.

Latest Russian MoD statements on depleted uranium munitions:

▪️Uranium compounds that penetrate the soil remain dangerous for people, animals and agricultural crops for a long time;

▪️After the use of shells with depleted uranium in Ukraine, radioactive substances will be carried by cars to the surrounding area;

▪️NATO soldiers also fell victim to the use of depleted uranium munitions in Iraq and Yugoslavia;

▪️The danger of depleted uranium is that uranium dust accumulating in the kidneys, bone tissue and liver leads to a change in internal organs;

▪️In Yugoslavia, NATO fired about 40,000 shells with more than 15,000 tons of depleted uranium. The United States used at least 300 tons of depleted uranium in Iraq;

▪️In the former Yugoslavia, the incidence of cancer after hits by uranium munitions increased by 25%;

▪️The West is well aware of the danger of depleted uranium ammunition;

▪️As a result of the use of uranium ammunition in Iraq in 2005, the incidence of cancer there increased 40 times, to 1,600 per 100,000 population;

▪️Only NATO countries have used depleted uranium ammunition in armed conflicts;

▪️The particular cynicism of London's plans for uranium ammunition is that they were announced on the eve of the anniversary of the bombing of Yugoslavia.