The Buk-MZ anti-aircraft missile system of the Russian Armed Forces is operating in the Kharkiv direction. File photoMOSCOW, June 3Russian missile forces and artillery have destroyed more than 650 Ukrainian positions, including a drone command post, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said on Friday. artillery hit 26 command posts, 122 artillery and mortar batteries of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in firing positions, 537 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, as well as five ammunition depots. In the area of the settlement of Pervomayskoye, Mykolaiv region, the control point of unmanned aerial vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed,» Konashenkov said. .
Russian air defense systems destroyed three Ukrainian drones in a dayRussia 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 Kyiv 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 Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military 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.
