MOSCOW, May 8. Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed a Ukrainian corvette near Odessa, the Ministry of Defense reported.» During the night, high-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the command post of a mechanized brigade in the area of Pyatikhatka, Kharkiv region, and the communication center of the military airfield Chervonoglinskoye in the area of the settlement of Artsyz. Also, a corvette of the Ukrainian Navy of project 1241 was destroyed in the Odessa area,» the ministry said.
Russian Armed Forces destroyed more than a thousand Ukrainian aircraft Project 1241 Molniya ships are classified as missile boats according to the domestic classification, but NATO considers them corvettes. They carry four anti-ship missiles and are capable of posing a serious threat to ships of a larger class. Also, two Ukrainian Su-24 bombers and one Mi-24 helicopter were hit over Zmeiny Island. Russia has been conducting a military operation in Ukraine since late 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 the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. enemy potential. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
