The spokesman for the military unit, Major General Igor Konashénkov, today reported the elimination of 15 command posts, as well as 201 fortifications and a concentration zone for the Kiev armed forces.
He said the air force hit an artillery battery, two multiple rocket launchers, two missile and artillery weapon depots and three staging areas for Ukrainian military personnel and equipment.
The senior officer noted that this morning Moscow aviation prevented an attempt by nationalist units to attack the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station in Ukraine with two Tochka-U tactical missiles.
He explained that both rockets were fired into the air by the Russian Air Defense Forces, although fragments of one of them fell on the town of Nóvaya Kajóvka in the Kherson region, injuring a woman and a child, damaging a children’s room and in residential buildings.
Russia began a military operation in Ukraine on February 24 after authorities in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics requested help to repel rising aggression and intense bombing in Kiev.
Previously, Moscow had recognized the independence and sovereignty of both territories and signed treaties of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance with their leaders, which included the establishment of diplomatic relations and military assistance.
In his speech informing about the start of the operation, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the goal is to protect the people of Donbass from the abuses and genocide in Kyiv over the past eight years.
According to the Defense Ministry, the attacks are not aimed at the Ukrainian population or cities, but at the military infrastructure of the neighboring country.
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