Drone in the skyMOSCOW, Mar 26 Russian air defense forces shot down a Ukrainian helicopter and four drones, one of which was approaching Sevastopol over the Black Sea, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said at a briefing. over Balakleya, Kiev, Chernigov. One Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was also destroyed, approaching Sevastopol in the airspace over the Black Sea,» he said. 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 bullying and genocide by the Kiev 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 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president stressed.
