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Ministry of Defence of Russia

In the record: 25 statements, 19 checkable claims, the acting party in 275 events, the target in 61 events.

Kind
State forces
Country
Russia
Part of
Government of Russia

The Russia-Ukraine war

Claims it made (19)

What it said (25)

Said: 25 statements, not counted as events

Said

08/30Ministry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry said it was preparing massive strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure in retaliation for Ukrainian drone attacks on the Wildberries and Ozon retailers and on Russia's oil and gas sector, AP reported. The UN monitoring mission later cited the announcement as the start of an intensified campaign against Ukrainian energy facilities.

Mixed audience · ru

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05/14Ministry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry described the 14 May attack on Kyiv as a massive retaliatory strike in response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian civilian objects.

Domestic audience · ru

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02/20Ministry of Defence of Russia: Sergei Rudskoy, first deputy chief of Russia's General Staff, told the defence ministry newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda that Ukrainian forces' losses since the start of the operation exceeded 1.5 million people, including more than 520,000 in 2025.

Domestic audience · ru

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09/10Ministry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry acknowledged strikes on Ukrainian targets on the night drones entered Poland but said it had no intention of targeting anything on Polish territory.

International body · ru

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04/26Ministry of Defence of Russia: Gerasimov told Putin the Kursk region had been fully liberated, said the main area of the incursion covered 1,260 square kilometres, and praised North Korean servicemen for helping defeat the Ukrainian force.

Domestic audience · ru

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12/18Ministry of Defence of Russia: Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov said the Ukrainian army had lost about one million dead and wounded since the start of the operation, along with about 20,000 tanks and armoured vehicles.

Mixed audience · ru

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12/16Ministry of Defence of Russia: At an expanded meeting of the Russian defence ministry board attended by President Putin, Defence Minister Andrei Belousov said Ukraine's armed forces had lost almost one million people since the start of what Russia calls its special military operation.

Domestic audience · ru

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08/07Ministry of Defence of Russia: Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov told President Putin that Ukrainian troops aimed to seize Sudzha district but that their advance toward Kursk had been halted.

Domestic audience · ru

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05/12Ministry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry said air defences shot down Tochka-U missiles and rockets over Belgorod region and that a missile fragment damaged the apartment building that collapsed.

Domestic audience · ru

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02/27Ministry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence minister Sergei Shoigu said Ukraine had lost 444,000 soldiers since February 2022. He did not say whether the figure counted deaths only.

Mixed audience · en

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09/26Ministry of Defence of Russia: At a defence ministry meeting shown on video, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said more than 17,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed in September.

Domestic audience · ru

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06/06Ministry of Defence of Russia: Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Russian forces repelled all Ukrainian attacks in a large-scale offensive and killed 3,175 Ukrainian soldiers in three days.

Domestic audience · ru

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01/04Ministry of Defence of Russia: Lieutenant General Sergey Sevryukov said the Makiivka toll had risen to 89 and that soldiers' unauthorised mobile phone use let Ukraine track and target them.

Domestic audience · ru

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11/15Ministry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry denied that Russian missiles hit Polish territory and called the reports a deliberate provocation; the Kremlin said it had no information about the explosion.

Foreign audience · ru

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10/23Ministry of Defence of Russia: In calls with his US, British, French and Turkish counterparts, Defence Minister Shoigu said Ukraine was preparing a provocation with a dirty bomb. Britain, France and the US rejected the claim as transparently false, and the IAEA said on 3 November its inspections at three Ukrainian sites found no sign of undeclared nuclear activity or material.

Foreign audience · ru

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07/03Ministry of Defence of Russia: Defence Minister Shoigu reported to Putin that Russian and Luhansk forces had established full control of Lysychansk and that the Luhansk People's Republic had been liberated.

Domestic audience · ru

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06/30Ministry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry said that as a gesture of goodwill its forces had completed their tasks on Snake Island and withdrawn the garrison, to show Russia was not obstructing UN efforts to organise grain exports from Ukraine.

Mixed audience · ru

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06/28Ministry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry said its aerospace forces struck hangars holding Western-made weapons and munitions at the Kremenchuk road machinery plant, and that the detonation caused a fire in a non-functioning shopping centre next to the plant.

Mixed audience · ru

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05/20Ministry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry said the last 531 fighters at Azovstal had surrendered, that 2,439 had laid down arms since 16 May, and that the plant was completely under Russian control.

Mixed audience · ru

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04/14Ministry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry said ammunition on the cruiser Moskva detonated as a result of a fire and that the ship lost stability and sank in a storm while being towed to port. It did not say a missile had hit the ship.

Domestic audience · ru

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04/08Ministry of Defence of Russia: Russia denied attacking Kramatorsk railway station and said its forces no longer used the Tochka-U missile system.

Mixed audience · ru

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04/03Ministry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry said its units had withdrawn completely from Bucha as early as 30 March, and Russian officials described the images of bodies in the town as staged.

Mixed audience · ru

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03/29Ministry of Defence of Russia: After the Istanbul talks, Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin said Russia would drastically reduce military activity in the Kyiv and Chernihiv directions to increase trust, and that talks on Ukraine's neutrality and non-nuclear status had moved into a practical phase.

Mixed audience · ru

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03/25Ministry of Defence of Russia: Colonel General Sergei Rudskoy of the General Staff said the main objectives of the first stage of the operation had generally been accomplished and that Russia would now focus its main efforts on what he called the liberation of Donbas.

Mixed audience · ru

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03/13Ministry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said strikes on the Yavoriv training centre killed up to 180 foreign mercenaries and destroyed a large amount of foreign-supplied weapons.

Mixed audience · ru

Events where it acted (275)

Events where it was the target (60)

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