The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, said during the briefing that Russian troops managed to destroy the ammunition depot of the Ukrainian Terodefense Brigade in Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk People’s Republic, last day.
“The ammunition depot of the 67th mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed near the Kramatorsk settlement in the DPR,” said a representative of the Russian defense ministry.
Igor Konashenkov also said that the Russian troops was able to liquidate More than 120 Ukrainian soldiers in the Donetsk direction.
Also, the Ministry of National Defense reported About the completion of the capture of Artemovsk (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut).
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 Lugansk 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.