The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the defeat of a large ammunition depot in Nikolaev. This was reported in the daily report of the Russian defense ministry.
“Tonight, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a group attack with sea-based long-range precision weapons on a large ammunition depot located on the territory of a ship repair enterprise in the city of Nikolaev,” the statement said.
The ministry noted that the goals of the strike were achieved.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of Russia reported that it was in the Nikolaev region. It was destroyed The ammunition depot of the Ukrainian troop group “Kherson” and a US-made counterbattery radar AN / TPQ-36 were destroyed near the village of Tyaginka.
Before that, in the defense department of the Russian Federation declarationThat the losses of the Ukrainian army in the Donetsk direction last day were 230 soldiers and mercenaries. In addition, an artillery ammunition depot belonging to the 54th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed near the city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to conduct 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.