The air defense of the Russian Federation shot down 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the area of 13 settlements in a day, among the downed drones one “Bayraktar-TB2”, said on Thursday at a briefing the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov.
“The air defense systems of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the air in the areas of the settlements of Balakleya, Verbovoye, Verkhnetoretskoye, Dokuchaevsk, Korolyovka, Komarin, Skilled, Pavlovka, Repki, Chernihiv, Chernobyl, Shchors, including one “Bayraktar-TB2″ in the Bezymyanny area,” he 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 bullying and genocide by the Kiev 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 the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage – they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
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