Rusija has confirmed that it carried out massive strikes on Ukrainian military and energy infrastructure, stating that it is a response to, as he claims Moscow, "terrorist attacks by Ukraine on civilian objects" on Russian territory.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that "all the objectives of the strike were achieved", and that high-precision long-range weapons from land, sea and air, as well as drones, were used in the attacks.
"The objectives of the strike have been achieved. All the specified targets have been hit," the Russian Ministry of Defense said, as reported by the Russian state news agency TASS.
The army announced that the Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force was also destroyed, as well as that "objects of the Ukrainian transport infrastructure, as well as temporary places of deployment of Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries, were hit."
Downed drones and destroyed radars
Moscow also claims that Russian air defenses shot down 200 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones and three smart bombs during the last 24 hours, the Ministry announced, adding that two Israeli RADA RPS-42 radar stations were also destroyed.
Battlegroup South destroyed another similar radar station. In addition, the Zapad battle group destroyed the Dutch-made Robin IRIS radar station, according to the statement
Claims about losses
The Russian Ministry of Defense also states that during the past day, around 1.375 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the zone of special military operations.
According to these data, combat group "North" destroyed more than 200 Ukrainian soldiers, group "West" more than 180, group "South" up to 200, group "Center" more than 335, group "East" almost 400, while group "Dnieper" eliminated more than 60 soldiers, TASS reports.
