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The aftermath of the strike on the Zhulyansky machine-building plant «Vizar» on the outskirts of KyivMOSCOW, Apr 17 Tactical aviation destroyed 68 military facilities of Ukraine, including two S-300 illumination and guidance locators and one Osa AKM anti-aircraft missile system, Major General Igor Konashenkov, official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, said. «Operational tactical aviation destroyed 68 military facilities of Ukraine Among them: in the Krivaya Luka and Krasnoarmeysk regions, two S-300 illumination and guidance locators and in the Severodonetsk region, one Osa AKM anti-aircraft missile system, six depots of rocket and artillery weapons and fuel, as well as 40 areas where Ukrainian military equipment and personal composition in the settlements of Kremennaya, Krasny Liman, Kolodezi, Torskoye, Yampolovka and Novoselovka,» he said at a briefing. 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 Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the 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.