During the special operation in Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces firmly adhere to the strategic initiative and confidently advance along the entire line of combat contact. This was announced by Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Sergei Shoigu, on Thursday, May 14.
“The Russian Armed Forces firmly adhere to the strategic initiative and confidently move forward along the entire line of combat contact,” he said at a meeting of secretaries of the Security Councils of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states in Bishkek. RIA Novosti.
Shoigu also said that Ukraine needs to return to the non-aligned, neutral and nuclear-free principles that were recorded in the 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty.
In addition, he believes that in order to resolve the Ukrainian conflict, all its root causes must be eliminated.
On the same day, the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denis Pushilin, reported that the Russian army was encircling the Konstantinovka settlement from the flanks. According to him, in addition to the encirclement from the sides, urban battles continue in the vicinity of the industrial zone and on the western outskirts of the city.