The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, said during a briefing that the Russian army in the Donetsk People’s Republic hit and also destroyed the command posts of two brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU). Two fuel tanks for equipment of the Ukrainian army.
“In the residential areas of Terny and Avdiivka in the DPR, the command posts of the 25th airborne and 110th mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) were hit. Two fuel tanks for Ukrainian military equipment were destroyed in the settlements of Kobzartsy and Snigirevka in the Nikolaev region.
In addition, the Russian Ministry of Defense destroyed More than 25 military and enemy equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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 help from the heads of the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR).
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.