Moscow. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov claimed on Tuesday that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation had taken full control of the entire region of Kherson. The spokesman said troops of the Donetsk People’s Republic continued to attack and took control of Panteleimonovka before the Ukrainian nationalists reached the Verkhnetoretskoye and Novoselovka-2 lines.
Konashenkov said, “On the previous day, the Russian Air Force’s aviation and air defense systems shot down 16 air targets, including 1 Su-24 and Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, 1 M-8 helicopter and 13 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles. Huh.”
Konashenkov also said that operational-tactical, military and unmanned aviation affected the assets of 136 military infrastructure of Ukraine, including 7 command posts and communications centers, 4 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3 multiple launch rocket systems, reconnaissance 4 radar stations, target illumination and S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1 electronic warfare station, 4 ammunition and fuel depots and 72 areas of military equipment concentration.
The Russian military claimed that three hangars containing 4 Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft, 1 M-24 and 5 M-8 helicopters were destroyed at a military airfield near Kramatorsk.
In total, 156 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,306 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 127 multiple launch rocket systems, 471 field artillery and mortars, and 1,054 special military vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been destroyed.
It is claimed that on the evening of March 14, units of the Russian Airborne Troops captured a strong point of Nationalists and foreign mercenaries near Gut-Mezhigoskarya.
The Russian military claimed that Russian paratroopers also seized 10 US-made Javelin anti-tank missile systems and several other weapons supplied to Ukraine by Western countries.
All confiscated Javelin anti-tank missile systems and other foreign weapons have been handed over to units of the People’s Militia of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics.
—AnyTV News
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