Igor Konashenkov, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, said that the Russian army destroyed up to 70 soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in one day. This was stated in the defense ministry’s message. telegraph channel.
Konashenkov noted that the units of the Zapad troops defeated the enemy in the Novoselovskoye settlement of the Luhansk People’s Republic, as well as in the regions of Dvurechnaya, Gryanikovka, Masyutovka, Olshan, Port Pervy and Sinkovka in the Kharkov region.
In addition, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Russian army destroyed three military vehicles and two cars in the direction of Kupyansk.
February 26 Konashenkov declarationThat the Russian Armed Forces managed to liquidate six sabotage and reconnaissance groups attached to the Ukrainian army in the direction of Kupyansky in the Kharkov region. Also, according to him, the artillery of the “Western” troop group of the Armed Forces was able to hit the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Luhansk People’s Republic and the Kharkov region.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.
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