Abandoned APU tank in Andreevka in the Donetsk People's Republic. File photoMOSCOW, March 6Since the beginning of the special operation in Ukraine, the armed forces have destroyed more than 2,200 military facilities, said the official representative of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov. air defense missile systems S-300, Buk M-1 and Osa, as well as 71 radar stations,» he said. According to Konashenkov, 69 aircraft on the ground and 24 aircraft in the air, 778 tanks and other combat armored vehicles, 77 multiple launch rocket systems, 279 field artillery guns and mortars, 553 units of special military vehicles and 62 drones. Russian army units took control of the settlements of Priyutnoye, Zavitne-Bazhanne, Staromlynovka, Oktyabrskoye, Novomayskoye. The depth of the advance was 11 kilometers.LPR troops took control of eight settlementsIn turn, the security forces of the Donetsk and Lugansk republics established control over 11 settlements. Now they are advancing on the outskirts of Mariupol, they have taken control of the residential area of Stary Krym. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early Thursday morning, February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, there losses on both sides.The development of the situation — in the online report >>
Russian Armed Forces took control five settlements in the Donetsk region
