Iskander's attack on areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, warehouses with ammunition and weapons. Freeze frame video. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 7.Russian Missile Forces have destroyed 44 command posts of Ukrainian troops and 196 areas of enemy strongholds and concentrations of manpower and equipment, Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, said. and artillery during the night hit 44 command posts and 196 strongholds of Ukrainian troops, areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,» Konashenkov said at a briefing. jpg» />DPR forces liberated 182 settlementsRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Russian President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Russian Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage of the special operation — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was the liberation of Donbass. On April 19, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced the start of the next phase of the special operation. Volnovakha, a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk, and Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov, have been liberated in the DPR. In the LPR, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, as of March 25, 93% of the former Lugansk region, within whose borders a republic was proclaimed, had been liberated. />Three Ukrainian missiles «Tochka-U» were intercepted over the city of Izyum
