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For: EFE Updated 22 May 2022, 8: 58 am EDT
The Russian Ministry of Defense declared this Sunday that six command posts of the Ukrainian Army were destroyed, three of them with high-precision missiles and the other three by assault aviation.
“As a result of the air strikes, more than 210 nationalistic and destroyed 05 heavy weapons units”, said the spokesman for that portfolio, General Igor Konashénkov, when offering the traditional morning part.
He added that, in addition to punishing the Ukrainian positions, five arsenals were destroyed from the air in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, in the east of Ukraine.
Konashénkov indicated the means of Russian anti-aircraft defense in the past 24 hours shot down a total of Ukrainian drones, almost all of them in the eastern regions of Ukraine, where the most intense fighting is taking place.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, since the beginning of the “special military operation” in Ukraine, the past 24 February, Russian forces have destroyed 174 planes, 125 helicopters and 997 Ukrainian drones.
In addition, the Russian military assures, to this day the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost 317 systems of anti-aircraft missiles, 3.198 tanks and other armor, 317 multiple self-propelled launchers, 1.622 pieces of arti llería and 3.55 military vehicles .
At least 58 civilian assets in Donetsk region
Russian troops bombed last 24 hours twelve populated areas in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine and destroyed 58 civil objects , the Ukrainian National Police reported this Sunday.
“In one day, the Russians destroyed 55 civilian property in the Donetsk region. The occupants fired on twelve towns. There are dead and wounded,” says the Ukrainian police on Telegram in a statement collected by the Ukrinform agency.
It adds that “more than forty residential buildings , a school, a music school, an institute, companies and critical infrastructure facilities were destroyed.”
“The enemy attacked the settlements of Bakhmut, Soledar, Avdiivka, Sviatohirsk, Mykolayivka , Toretsk, Zalizne, Raihorodok, Lastochkine, Pervomaiske, Yarova and Sil”, he specifies.
According to the statement, Russian troops bombarded the civilian population from planes, tanks, heavy artillery and multiple rocket launchers Grad.
Russian war crimes have been documented by the police and criminal proceedings have been opened under article 408 (violation of the laws and customs of war) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, it adds.
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