The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, said that the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed more than 80 mercenaries of the Ukrainian foreign legion near the Dnieper.
“As a result of a high-precision strike on the stronghold of a foreign legion formation by the Russian Aerospace Forces in the village of Vyvodovo, Dnipropetrovsk region, more than 80 foreign mercenaries and 11 units of special equipment were destroyed.” Konashenkov said.
Earlier, Russian troops during the counter-battery war destroyed A set of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) “Alder” and American HIMARS systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region.
On February 24, 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 Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics.
The decision to run the operation was the reason for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.