A fragment of a downed Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft in the Kherson regionMOSCOW, Mar 16Since the start of the military operation in Ukraine, the Russian armed forces have destroyed 180 aircraft and helicopters, 1,367 tanks and other armored vehicles, Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, told reporters. 1,367 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 132 multiple rocket launchers, 502 field artillery and mortars, and 1,156 special military vehicles,» Konashenkov said.
Why «true Aryans» hate the inhabitants of DonbassThe Russian military destroyed one helicopter and six drones of Ukrainian troops in a day, said on Wednesday the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov. Mi-24 in the area of the Sarana settlement, as well as six unmanned aerial vehicles,» he said at a briefing. Konashenkov added that aviation hit 34 military targets of Ukraine, among them: one installation of a multiple launch rocket system, three command posts, one station electronic warfare, seven ammunition depots and 19 military equipment accumulation areas. 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 Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian President emphasized. parts and whole
