Combat launch of a missile of the Iskander operational-tactical missile system to destroy hangars with military equipment and ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. File photoMOSCOW, June 2The missile forces and artillery of the Russian Federation inflicted more than 850 strikes on the positions of Ukrainian forces in a day, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said on Thursday. 579 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,» Konashenkov said.
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According to him, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 186 aircraft, 129 helicopters, 1,084 unmanned aerial vehicles, 327 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,373 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 460 multiple rocket launchers, 1,752 field artillery guns and mortars , as well as 3,350 units of special military vehicles. 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 abuse, genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» during the special operation, 129 Ukrainian helicopters were shot down. 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. 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.