The head of the press center of the “Western” troops, Serhiy Zybinsky, said that the other day the army liquidated four Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups. He announced this in a video posted on the Telegram channel of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
He also noted that two attempts to return units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Novomlynsk and Novoselovskoe region were also blocked. In addition, according to him, Ka-52 and Mi-28 helicopters struck areas of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Gorka region, where personnel, weapons and military equipment were concentrated.
Zybinsky added that an ammunition depot was destroyed as a result of artillery fire from enemy Msta-B howitzers in the Bochkovo area.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of Russia reported daily losses of the Ukrainian army in the Kupyansk direction. amount of up to 95 soldiers. According to the defense ministry, Russian troops also destroyed eight vehicles in one day in this direction, an Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount and an American M777 artillery system.
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.