Russian Rocket Forces Destroyed 12 Command Posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The building of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on Frunzenskaya Embankment in Moscow. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 30 Twelve command posts of Ukrainian troops, 319 enemy manpower and military equipment concentration areas, as well as two Ukrainian depots of missile and artillery weapons struck Russian missile forces, said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman General -Major Igor Konashenkov. “Missile troops and artillery hit 319 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, 12 command posts and two depots of missile and artillery weapons,” 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 Kyiv 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 military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage – significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.