The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, said that the Central group in the direction of Krasnolimansky destroyed up to a hundred military Armed Forces of Ukraine. He announced this during a briefing.
He announced the liquidation of the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Chervonaya Dibrova, Chrvonopopovka and Stelmakhivka regions of the Luhansk People’s Republic.
Also here were destroyed four combat armored vehicles, a D-20 howitzer, a Grad multiple launch rocket system and an American AN / TPQ-50 counter-battery radar.
A representative of the Russian defense ministry added that an ammunition depot belonging to the Ukrainian army was destroyed near the village of Borovaya in the Kharkiv region.
The day before, Konashenkov said that the crew of the aviation, artillery and heavy flamethrower systems of the Russian military group “Center”. destroyed More than 110 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction.
Prior to this, the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Russian Armed Forces managed Defeating units of the Ukrainian army in the Krasnolimansky direction, as a result, more than 130 Ukrainian armies were liquidated.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to conduct a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from the presidents of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.