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Russia announces destruction of a Ukrainian missile depot near kyiv

El depósito de misiles para sistemas de misiles antiaéreos S-300 y Buk fue destruido en la localidad de Plesetskoye, según el ministro de defensa ruso.
The missile depot for anti-aircraft missile systems S-300 and Buk was destroyed in the town of Plesetskoye, according to the Russian defense minister.

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EFE

By: EFE Updated 27 Sea 2022, 9: 18 am EDT

The Russian Armed Forces used sea-launched long-range weapons to destroy a Ukrainian missile depot near kyiv, reported this Sunday the Ministry of Defense, which also reported the elimination of a fuel base and a radio repair shop in the Saturday’s attacks against Lviv.

The spokesman for the military department, Igor Konashénkov, pointed out in the morning military report that missile depot for anti-aircraft missile systems S-300 and Buk was destroyed in the town of Plesetskoye, at 30 kilometers southwest of the capital.

In addition, he confirmed that on Saturday the Russian Army attacked a large fuel base in Lviv with long-range missiles, which supplied to the Ukrainian troops in the western regions already those deployed near kyiv.

“In addition, high-precision cruise missiles destroyed the workshops of the Lviv radio repair plant”, he indicated.

Konashénkov specified that this operation carried out “a major overhaul and modernization of the Tor and S-anti-aircraft missile systems 125, radar stations for the Ukrainian Air Force, electronic warfare equipment and sights for tanks” .

During Saturday, he added, operational aviation- Russian tactical and military hit 54 Ukrainian military installations .

Overnight, Russian air defense systems also destroyed 18 drones, assured.

According to Russia, since the start of what he calls a “special military operation”, his forces have destroyed 289 drones, 1.656 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 169 multiple rocket launchers, 684 artillery pieces of campaign and mortars, as well as 1.503 units of special military vehicles.

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