the ministry of defense commented on the situation in the kharkiv direction. where heavy fighting has been going on for the past four days ? in order to achieve the stated goals of the special military operation to liberate donbass, it was decided to regroup the russian troops located in

the balakliya and izyum regions in order to step up efforts in the donetsk direction. for this purpose, an operation was carried out to curtail and organize the transfer within three days. izyum balakleyskaya grouping of troops on the territory of the donetsk people's republic during this operation, a number of distracting and demonstration activities were carried out with the designation of the real actions of the troops. in order to prevent damage, russian troops were inflicted on the enemy with a powerful fire defeat using aircraft of missile forces and artillery, over three days, more than 2,000 ukrainian foreign fighters were destroyed, as well as over a flock of armored vehicles and artillery. read more about what is happening in the kharkiv direction our war correspondent yevgeny will tell a similar report from the front line. on the fourth day, the enemy’s counteroffensive in the northeast of the zone of the special military operation of the grouping of russian forces managed to stabilize the situation, the units and the formation of the russian armies successfully

avoided encirclement in raisins and retreated to the opposition along the left bank, the oskol river and the oskol reservoir, units of the kiev regime, which is partially staffed by mercenaries tried to break through the defenses of the allied forces in the area red firth. well, the artillery was stopped by fire, and also as a result of the small arms battle they suffered losses and at the crossings through the seversky donetsk , kupinsk did not come out to realize the breakthrough of the northeastern slavic enemy, on the eve of partly a mustache, which is participating in the counteroffensive , was subjected to a massive rocket artillery strike. that's how it was under fire turned out to be residential, quarters and life support infrastructure of the city. as a result of a strike using rso highmars and

western-made cannon artillery, the bridge that connected the western and eastern parts of the city was destroyed, at the cost of significant losses , the enemy forces were able to enter the western quarters of kupinsk and gain a foothold, the soldiers of the russian army took up defense in the eastern part of the settlement on the left bank of the river and in the industrial zone, which is essentially larger than the city of kupyansk itself - this is a large, junction railway station on the eve of the war zone. the ministry of defense transferred large reserves to strengthen our grouping on the ground and provided armored motorized rifles by air . mi-26 helicopter units unloaded equipment and personnel in the immediate vicinity of the front line. combat security was provided by attack helicopters in the air, russian attack and bomber aircraft continue to operate . strikes at accumulations of personnel

and equipment of the kiev regime, grouping in the armed forces. now stretched and do not have prepared positions. it is already known that the enemy’s losses are more than 2,000 killed. in kiev, he does not pay attention to losses, and in the counteroffensive, the regime the most trained units and formations in which the battle is controlled, as a rule, by western mercenaries evgeny poddubny ruban mirobov alexander pushin, stanislav elovsky and dmitry maslennikov lead from the kharkov region. the russian ministry of defense notes that the russian military showed courage and professionalism in the battles in the kharkov direction. the russian army destroyed more than 2,000 ukrainian foreign fighters, as well as over 100 units of armored vehicles and artillery, 2s19

mstas self-propelled howitzers, the battery does not stop firing, destroyed the operators who drove the bayraktars and the personnel guarding them, and this is not all the merits of artillerymen over the past few days . we destroyed the infantry mortar section on armored vehicles, as well as self-propelled artillery stopping fire on actual structures with concrete fortifications armored vehicles and manpower, the enemy is also led by heavy flamethrower systems. tos-1a took cover from their thermobaric shells. impossible at the time of the explosion. the temperature reaches 3.000°, and the affected area is equal to 3 football fields. these machines, it is very difficult to hide in walking from it. i mean, we shoot and use the car. like sleep. rifle one shot one target we sent him one or two rockets or a package and move to another position on the spare and also continue to work while the suns are working cover them, snipers the shooters are constantly nearby and control

the territory of the mayor, we focus around, we take positions that are convenient for us for firing at enemy clusters , if such are present, while holding settlements, the russian military often has to engage in an unequal battle with the nazis in such conditions, it turned out to be a platoon of artillerymen under the command of a sergeant , evgenia abramova, their position came under massive fire, but the crew managed to destroy two enemy infantry fighting vehicles and about 15 nationalists, in order to avoid the artillery fire of the sergeant. abramov ordered the personnel to change position, but at that moment a mortar shell exploded nearby . yevgeny helped the military leave the shelter, and carried the neo-nazi plans to take the neo-nazis’ plans to a safe place, wounded by shrapnel in his arms, the village of savensy tore off the department. but ran into mines on explosive barriers and concentrated fire, motorized riflemen, ukrainian nationalists suffered significant losses in the manpower of military

equipment and the courage of decisiveness retreated, the competent actions of colonel zavadsky helped to ensure the timely withdrawal of units to reserve lines, while preserving the lives and health of personnel, another neo-nazi breakthrough. it was possible to prevent a platoon of motorized riflemen under the command of a sergeant. anton merkuriev, the enemy lost more than seven pieces of military equipment and manpower, which he took advantage of. mercury platoon . motorized riflemen quickly changed positions without loss of personnel, a platoon of motorized riflemen under the command of ensign sergei shlyagin entered the battle with superior enemy forces. he took command. after the commander was seriously injured, providing him with first aid. the ensign, shlyagin, continued the battle and thwarted the offensive of the nationalists. and he gave the unit an order to regroup. the enemy lost five units of military equipment and 15 people wounded and killed, personnel under the command of ensign shelyagin, relocated no loss stanislav vasilchenko lead.

in the winter of 2007, a grandiose scandal erupted in the austrian city of graz. the local newspaper klein saitung published a sensational article dedicated to little-known pages in the history of graz international airport. this is the third largest airport in austria after vienna from alba, and it receives more than fifty flights from around the world per day. the article was called where

planes take off over coffins. it turned out that during the first world war, on the site of the current airfield, there was a huge concentration camp, talerhof, according to the author of the article, the remains of many prisoners still lie in the ground, where the cemetery of prisoners once was, part of this territory belongs to the military air base of the north atlantic alliance right here on the territory of the current airport of the city of grasse in september 1914. auto hungarian authorities created the first concentration camp in the history of europe, it was intended for the inhabitants of galician and carpathian rus who called themselves rusyns or russians during the first world war, the austrians accused them of being moscow spies and traitors to the austrian crown and subjected them to the most severe repressions. for most austrians, this information caused a real shock

on the orders of the minister of defense. in austria, a special commission was created from the military and professors of the university of gradz. we became the first russian journalists who received permission to visit the ollerhof burial site directly. it is located just 100m from the main runway in a high security zone. military security according to him, the cemetery was liquidated in 1936 in connection with the construction of a military airport. then the remains of almost 2,000 russian prisoners were found here, among whom were women and children, the cemetery for the internment camp of the talergs was located here, the first mass grave appeared already in 1914. prisoners, especially at first, died in hundreds due to

terrible epidemics caused by overcrowding and poor content, having studied many archival documents. we were able to establish that the remains of all these people were removed from the ground after the first world war and reburied in a cemetery near here in the thirties. the bones of the prisoners were transported to the cemetery of the village of feld, kerchen, under a small chapel crypt with nine zinc coffins. they contain the remains of about 2,000 men, women, children from galicia bukovina, who died in the talerhof in 1914 , they became victims of a monstrous ethnic cleansing, which in modern europe they prefer not to remember. then in the eastern in the regions of austria, hungary, people were hanged and shot only because they called themselves rusyns, and considered russians their native language. these were the indigenous inhabitants of the once united

state of kievan rus, after its fall , being first under the rule of poland and then austria, they stubbornly continued to consider themselves part of one russian people living from the carpathians to kamchatka this was their main crime of the first world war, the austrian authorities. they were very afraid that a significant part of the population and the empire could support russia, this fear led to fears that entire parts of the golitsa could go over to the side of the russian troops. in addition, the authorities everywhere imagined russian spies who were supposedly found, here and there they go there, which is why , immediately after the declaration of war, cruel repressions fell upon all the inhabitants of the golitsa, and not only on the so-called suspicious persons who were blacklisted by the police even

before the start of the war in september 1914. after 30 days of stubborn fighting. the russian army occupies the entire golitsa hungarian troops, having suffered a crushing defeat is retreating beyond the carpathians in lvov and other cities. our soldiers and officers are met with the most cordial welcome by the local rusyns, who greet them as liberators and close relatives. family photographs with a russian rifle as a memento the language of the galician peasants is understandable to any russian without translation. here is our soldier coming out from the local barber over the door a sign with a slightly recognizable word barbershop all attempts by austrian and polish officials to force rusyn to abandon the cyrillic alphabet and switch to on latin spelling failed 100 years

ago. here, on a hot day, everyone considered themselves russians, even ordinary peasants. not to mention intelligent. and uh, including. uh, all people considered themselves to be brothers of the same faith, being, even a bit of sin, uh, with their brothers in little russia of great russia in white russia soon, correspondents of russian and foreign publications who arrived with the troops discover in galicia a huge number of fresh graves in almost every village residents talk about hanged, shot or the number of relatives and friends sent to the concentration camp, the number of civilians subjected to repressions, goes to tens of thousands of one of the first victims, the austro-hungarian terror. he became an orthodox priest from the gorletska district.

on the eve of the war, father maxim sandovich was arrested and tried for the fact that the whole village where he served voluntarily transferred from unianism. in orthodoxy on august 4, 1914 . he was arrested again with his whole family and without trial or investigation was imprisoned on september 6, 1914. father maksim sandovich was shot in in the square near the prison wall, the austrian mouth, mr. dietrich hoslins, commanded the execution. the accusation was for judgment, the priest allegedly measured the depth of the river in his village in order to inform the russian troops later when the executioners blindfolded father maxim's eyes with a towel. he said, god help me. after the first volley, two bullets hit the body of the priest, but he remained on his feet and only leaned against the wall, addressing the crowd watching the order. father maxim exclaimed. long live the russian people and holy orthodoxy. after after this, the head of the guard took out a revolver

. maximov came close to his father and, presenting his head in the muzzle, fired at point-blank range. message about the atrocities of the austro-hungarian army came in a continuous stream from all corners of carpathian and galician rus to russian society, it seemed especially incredible that still recently, they were considered a model of humanity and order. here are just some of the messages from russian and local correspondents. in the village of prussia, lvov district. the austrians cut off the lips of a peasant tarashchuk, chopped off his fingers on arms and legs, then they put a plank on his chest and stood on it until he suffocated in the village of sinevodsky. squeeze out the hungarians. 11 peasants were hanged because they called themselves russians, and their corpses were thrown into a swamp, forbidding to bury. the universal peasant alexei kozak was burned alive in his own hut. in the same place, the

nine-year-old boy universe highlanders was shot with bayonets by the rector of the local church and the daughter of the psalmist. her father was killed with seven bayonet strikes in the village of mazzina, the austrians turned the church into a stable, and in the altar set up a retreat. i believe that it was the ethnocet of the russian people in the size of the indigenous population in order to create for themselves, uh, a clear field for their manipulation of actions. well , including against russia. perhaps, or in order to secure the rear of the austrian propaganda warned any russia lighting a candle in the house. it can be a spy giving a signal to the enemy, therefore, the residents of those settlements near which advanced russian units appeared were especially brutal. so in the town of stone-cutting the austrians shot 55 people suspected of

sympathizing with russia in the village of rozluchchi. hungary was hanged by four peasants, who allegedly showed the way to the cossacks, 16 people were hanged, who met the russian patrol. in the village of kuzmino, 30 people were hanged. peasant woman anastasia lashchukevich was hanged by a court-martial for welcoming russian soldiers as liberators from the austrians? in the village of rechka, a peasant woman paranovich and her neighbor were hanged for informing their fellow villagers about the approach of the russian army. the mouth is burned to the ground along with the church and school. the historian of the university of vienna, dr. hanneslidinger, was one of the first in europe to gain access to previously secret documents of the austrian

military department during the first world war. many of them were declassified only 10-12 years ago. leadinger says. along with the orders to shoot hostages and burn down entire villages , there are orders that amaze with their cruel absurdity. this means that the ringing of bells was considered as a hostile action, only for him they could easily be arrested or shot at recognition of the austro-hungarian chaplains, because of this, a lot of innocent rusyn priests suffered. or, for example, peasant women lit a fire in a nibble to give cows, but for the military, this is a light or smoke signal to the enemy, they are immediately accused of changing and put on trial together with their children before the war , lvov was the center of the political and cultural life of galician rusyns. here, in the

middle of the 19th century, a powerful movement arose, which the austrians called russofolsky or moskvafilm. one of its leaders was the eminent educator john umovich from the rostrum of the lviv seim and from the pages of the local press. he stated his best efforts. mati and polyakov turned out to be futile to make of us a special people of ruthenians of the uniates. galician ugric rus. kiev moscow tobolsk from the point of view of ethnographic linguistic literary ritual - this is one and the same russia, it was and will be all its tribes make up one mighty russian people, the similarity of our language with the language of the rest of russia will not be destroyed by anyone in the world, illegalities or seims nimistry by recognition ukrainian historian hrushevsky by the end of the 19th century. muscovite philosophies embraced almost the entire then intelligentsia of golitsa and bukovyna because of carpathian

rus, including many unian priests who were just a few kilometers from the austrian border, the famous pochaev lavra became the center of attraction for tens of thousands of rusyns, and not only orthodox . under its influence in uyezds neighboring russia , sokolsky brownovsky skalatsky, as well as throughout the lenkom region, on the eve of the war, voluntary transitions of entire villages from unianism to orthodoxy on great holidays to the lavra to the miraculous icon of the mother of god and other shrines through the austrian border broke through up to half a thousand religious processions. in 1914, the austrian intelligence informed vienna that in the lviv diocese alone, about 400 unian priests were predisposed to converting to orthodoxy . today it is not the same thing 100 years ago. i'm worth the clergy believed

firstly, they themselves were russians, and secondly, they were orthodox and were uniates. unless, formally, most of them, in any case, did not perceive her as something temporary or something. uh, at least what allows them in those conditions to preserve just the superfluous russian faith and russian culture, uh, as opposed to the latin faith and latin culture , polish culture and austrian culture, uh, that is, in these conditions of unianism. then even the russian vera was called the cultural movement for the rights of rusyn quickly grew into a political one in 1871 the russian rada was formed in the year 1911, representing the interests of the entire galician-russian population. a petition was sent to the vienna parliament demanding the freedom to study and teach the russian language, under which 100,000 galicians subscribed

. dozens of russian reading rooms of people's houses of russian newspapers and societies were created in lvov , the pushkin literary society was founded throughout galicia, days of russian culture were held. in 1907, in golitsy and in the village of zabolotovtsy, the first monument outside russia to the great it was built to the russian poet alexander sergeevich pushkin with the money of the local rural community on the initiative of the parish priest father ivan soyuk, but the monument did not last long, taking place in 1914. through the village, the austro-hungarian units threw him off the pedestal and, according to one version, drowned the monument. pushkin in the dniester, a new monument to alexander sergeevich appeared here only in 1988 . how the first foreign monument to pushkin looked like can only be judged by this miraculously preserved photograph. commandant of lvov major general romel, after reading the next issue of the

galician newspaper chervonnaya rus, wrote a report to the viennese chief of all russophiles should be mercilessly destroyed . on august 1914, by order of the austrian governor in lvov, all russian public organizations were closed, including the famous russian people's house, which was located in this building. after that, all suspicious from the point of view of the austrians of the inhabitants, lvov began to be missed right on the streets, the banking case of the ostrovsky cart, which was studied in the evening. the battle was arrested on the denunciation of a passerby, who approached the austrian officer and said, order the immediate arrest of this gentleman. i heard how today at the barbershop. he spoke russian. this is certainly a russian spy among those arrested on equally absurd charges were even underage children, the youngest among them. became a student of the lviv national school savka

who was only 11 years old, his only crime was that he publicly called himself russian, for this the austrians took him to the police station, where they beat him, handcuffed him, then sent him to prison to criminals and after that in a concentration camp. following the defeat of all russian societies , mass arrests of suspected vrutfilstvo followed throughout holice for the extradition of persons convicted of espionage or propaganda of muscoviteism , the authorities appointed a fee of 10 to 50 kroons. after that, the police stations were literally overwhelmed. denunciations vigilant citizens on their neighbors and colleagues. muscovites arrested all over the golitsy were brought to lvov and driven through the whole city from the station to the prison at that time, the bredites standing on the sidewalks. ukraine, the poles and other patriots of the austrian crown showered them with beatings and insults on the gorodets street near ferdinand's kazan, a brutal crowd

stoned the priest to death, when, bleeding , he fell on the pavement, the austrian soldiers finished him off with a rifle butt, when the convoy made sure that the priest is already dead. they removed the shackles from him and forced the arrested peasants to carry him in their arms to the prison. here, near the brigids, a crowd beat an 80-year-old priest from the village of stoyanova to a pulp. after that, he ended up in a prison hospital, where he became an invalid, one of the wildest, reprisals against arrested rusyns took place in a rethinking, information about her was leaked to the press. after the city was taken by russian troops, the siege of this first-class fortress, equipped with the latest technology, lasted 194 days. vienna was considered impregnable by him on march 22, 1915 , unable to withstand the russian onslaught,

the garrison capitulated, about 120,000 austrian or hungarian soldiers surrendered. a month later , the russian emperor nicholas ii arrived, he examined the captured forts and noted in his diary an unusually warm welcome given to him by the locals, the rusyns met. the king's procession and bread and salt in 1913, when a terrible famine broke out in the carpathian region, nicholas ii ordered to collect donations in favor of the population of the chervona russia in the shortest possible time were collected and sent to the starving 100,000 gold rubles. after the capture of przemysl on the outskirts of the city, the bodies of several dozen people were found, mutilated beyond recognition, some had their legs cut off and hands, the details of this terrible crime soon became known. on september 15, 1914, the

austrian gendarmes brought to the city 46 russophiles, who were arrested in the surrounding villages from the station, they were driven to the police department on semiradsky street in russia, a crowd attacked local residents and a group of hungarian cavalrymen, who began to chop defenseless people with sabers, shouting death to a moscow spy. one of the victims of this massacre is the seventeen-year-old daughter of a priest. mary of mokhnadskaya fell to her knees in front of the crucifix, which was on the corner of the street with the words mother of god , save. after that, a hungarian soldier killed us with a shot in the head. the bodies of many unfortunates were cut into pieces. the remains found by the russian authorities were preserved with honors in the mass grave. until the second world war, every year on september 15, the rusyns laid fresh flowers on her.

several thousand people gathered for a memorial service for the dead, who went to the cemetery in a religious procession in russian theaters, there was even a play about this massacre. it was called masha in memory of my murdered mokhnack lites. the excesses in galicia show that the austrian military really considered most of the rusyns to be enemies of austria and the fifth column of russia, according to many documents, it can be seen that not only the soldiers but also the highest officers were infected with such sentiments. all this has led to numerous lawlessness, fast, sentence and unjustified cruelty aggravated the situation. and the fact that in this area there were a lot of hungarian soldiers who could not talk with the rusyns, because they absolutely did not understand their language because of this. they were often mistaken for russian spies and severe

sentences were handed down for completely absurd reasons.