Denis Averin, head of the press center of the central group, said that the crews of the Msta-S artillery mounts hit the infantry and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Krasnolymansky. It has been reported DEA News.
According to him, Ukrainian soldiers were detected using Orlan-10 drones.
“Data on the detection of the enemy were transferred to the calculations of self-propelled artillery installations“ Msta-S ”. As a result of the fire defeat, the enemy suffered losses in personnel and equipment, ”said Averin.
He also noted that the movement of infantry fighting vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was also in the Chervonodibrovsky division, some of them were destroyed as a result of artillery attacks, while the other dispersed into the forest.
Earlier, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, noted that the grouping of Russian troops is the artillery and crew of heavy flamethrower systems. they were able to falsify After the defeat to the Ukrainian military units, nearly 100 soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were purged.
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.