The national flag of Russia on the building of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in MoscowMOSCOW, March 31 Russian Armed Forces destroyed 28 military facilities in Ukraine in a day, including three weapons depots, Major General Igor Konashenkov, an official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, said on Thursday. , three field depots of missile and artillery weapons, four fuel storage facilities and six areas of concentration of Ukrainian military equipment,» Konashenkov 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 abuse and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» 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.
