Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has told the Defense Ministry meeting:

🔸 Ukraine has lost almost half a million soldiers since the beginning of Russia’s military operation;

🔸 A series of NATO drills to test supposedly impending Russian aggression are taking place right now, with up to 90,000 people participating;

🔸 NATO has deployed up to 33,000 servicepeople, about 300 tanks and more than 800 other types of armored vehicles near the borders of Russia.

🔸 The Russian forces will more intensively target Ukrainian logistics centers, as well as Western weapons storage facilities in the country;

🔸 The Russian armed forces have taken control of the villages of Pervomaiske, Bohdanivka, Novomykhailivka in the Donetsk People’s Republic have expanded the zone of control in two more areas;

🔸 NATO has been increasing its presence in the Arctic;