Ukrainian servicemen. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 16. The Ukrainian military is already using the Polish Pioruns man-portable air defense system and the Warmates strike unmanned aerial system, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said. «Polish support is extraordinary. Pioruns and Warmates are in the hands our military is successfully destroying the enemy,» Reznikov said after a meeting with the head of the Office of the Prime Minister of Poland, Mikhail Dvorchik. His words are quoted by the website of the Cabinet of Ministers. Earlier, the information resource of the Visegrad Group (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary) visegrad24 reported that Poland had transferred to Ukraine 232 T-72M1 tanks, man-portable air defense systems, multiple launch rocket systems and self-propelled howitzers. 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.» bloody crimes against civilians» of 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.
