The official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, said during a briefing that Russian troops in the Donetsk direction had liquidated up to 65 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) last day. .
“As a result of the active actions of the troops, air strikes and artillery fire of the group of forces “South”, as many as 65 Ukrainian soldiers were destroyed in one day,” the defense ministry said.
In addition, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed a D-30 howitzer, four armored combat vehicles and two vehicles in one day along the same lines.
Earlier, the head of the press center of the Vostok group, Alexander Gordeev, reported that the Russian Lancet kamikaze drone is in the direction of Yuzhnodonetsk. destroyed Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery mount supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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.