The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, said that the army of the Russian Armed Forces managed to destroy up to 60 Ukrainian fighters in the Kherson direction.
In addition, the M777 artillery system manufactured by the USA was dismantled in the combat zone.
“In the Kherson direction, as a result of fire damage, about 60 Ukrainian soldiers, one tank, eight vehicles, one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer were destroyed in one day,” Konashenkov said.
Prior to this, the Ministry of Defense declarationThat the Russian Armed Forces liquidated more than 60 military units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnolimansky direction. Russian troops entered the battle and repulsed the reconnaissance units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the settlements of Marfopol and Rabotino.
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.
Formerly in the Armed Forces in the open Source of information on the departures of Russian strategic aviation.