An employee of the National Guard in Ukraine. File photoMOSCOW, May 5.Russian aerospace forces hit 45 Ukrainian military targets in a day, said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov. forty-five military installations of Ukraine were hit,» Konashenkov said. He specified that among the affected objects were two command posts, 41 areas of concentration of manpower and Ukrainian military equipment, as well as a missile and artillery weapons depot in the Voevodovka region of the Luhansk People's Republic. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. 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, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
