Pentagon. File photoWASHINGTON, Apr 11The United States has no evidence that Russian forces destroyed the S-300 air defense systems recently received by Ukraine from Slovakia, a senior Pentagon official said. «Dnipro International Airport. We believe that part of its infrastructure was destroyed. But we have no evidence that they destroyed the S-300 system. And we have no evidence that would allow us to conclude that this system was Slovak,» he said on briefing. The official recalled that the Slovak authorities denied reports that appeared in a number of media about the destruction of Soviet-made air defense systems, the transfer of which to Ukraine was announced last week. 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 genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, and as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
