MOSCOW, 10 Apr. Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said in an interview with Ukrayinska Pravda that he could have been captured in Gostomel at the beginning of a special military operation.
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"The protected command post, which was assigned to my personnel, was — you will laugh — in Gostomel, in a protected place, which was the first to be ambushed. Theoretically, if we moved there at least a day or two, then half of my ministry would be there. Almost in captivity,” he said.
According to Reznikov, the employees had to “spray” all the buildings belonging to the department in Kiev.
On February 24, 2022, the Russian Armed Forces landed troops near Gostomel airfield in the suburbs of Kiev, where more than 200 nationalists from the special forces of Ukraine were killed. The operation was successful due to the suppression of the entire air defense system in the landing area, the complete isolation of the place of hostilities from the air and the active conduct of electronic warfare.