More than 130 foreign mercenaries were liquidated by the Russian armed forces in the South-Donetsk direction with high-precision strikes on the points of their temporary deployment, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday

State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Tuesday it would be hard for a foreign nation to carry out such operation as the murder of political analyst and journalist Daria Dugina, as Russia is a "security state."

The reaction of the US State Department to the murder of Daria Dugina, a Russian journalist and political analyst, and to the evidence of Ukraine's involvement in the crime discredits international human rights activity of the United States, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday

The Russian armed forces have destroyed four weapons and military equipment depots of Ukraine with Iskander missiles over the past day, Russian defense ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Monday