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MOSCOW, March 12 The Russian Armed Forces destroyed 3,593 military facilities during the military operation in Ukraine enemy, Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, told reporters on Saturday. 03/7db41e74a6acb28df939508b600cfe02.jpg» />Russian aviation destroyed 79 military facilities in Ukraine in a day, Konashenkov specified that 126 drones, 1,159 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 118 multiple rocket launchers, 436 field artillery guns and mortars and 973 units of special military vehicles, as well as 61 helicopters. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. 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 of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian President emphasized.