The operation took place in the Sasov Yar area of the Donetsk region and involved a “high-precision weapon of the Russian Aerospace Forces,” said Lt. Gen. Igor Konashenov, a spokesman for the Russian military command. and Spanish EFE.
Konashenov said that “30 Ukrainian fighters” in the “hangar” bombarded Donetsk residential areas with “US M777 155mm howitzers”.
He said Russian artillery hit 117 Ukrainian positions, “including two foreign mercenary positions in the Kharkiv region” in the east of the country.
According to Konashenko, in the last day the Russian army destroyed 22 command posts in the region.
It also reported Russian attacks in the Dnipro, Donetsk and Mykolaiv regions.
In the latter area, Russian jets shot down two Ukrainian Air Force Su-25s, a Moscow military spokesman said.
Information about military operations in Ukraine released by the two warring parties could not be immediately independently verified.
The war in Ukraine was launched by Russia on February 24 this year, when it invaded the neighboring country to “demilitarize and destroy”.
After the first round of offensives on several fronts, including the capital Kiev, Russian forces have in recent months focused on capturing the eastern part of the Donbass, which includes Donetsk and Luhansk.
These are the two people’s republics that Russia recognized as independent days before it launched its offensive in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the time that he was responding to calls for help from separatist forces to end what he called a “genocide” of the Russian-speaking people of the Donbass.
Pro-Russian Donbas separatists, backed by Moscow, have been fighting over Kiev since Russia invaded and annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in 2014.
The war in Ukraine, which has reached its 136th day today, has been condemned by the international community.
The European Union and many Western countries have enacted economic sanctions against Russia and provided weapons to Ukraine.
The exact number of civilian and military casualties is unknown, but several sources, including the UN, have warned that it could be significantly higher.
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