It became known about the destruction of the army of the 214th separate special battalion of the Ukrainian OPFOR troops, imitating the actions of the Russian army. It has been reported telegraph channel “Warriors of the Russian Spring”.
According to him, Oleg Chasnik, a member of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from OPFOR, who died near Artemivsk (Ukrainian name Bakhmut), was buried in Lviv. There is also information that Andrei Kovalenko, who served there, was liquidated in the Kharkiv region.
It was noted that the initiative to create the OPFOR special battalion belonged to the instructors of the American army.
Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, stated in a briefing that the Ukrainian Armed Forces was in the direction of Kherson the other day. loss Up to 30 soldiers, D-30 howitzer and Acacia self-propelled guns.
Before that, Russian forces loser Units of the Ukrainian troops in the Krasnoliman direction destroyed more than 60 Ukrainian fighters.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a military special operation to protect Donbass, 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.