The Armed Forces destroyed the headquarters of the Dnepr nationalist battalion in the village of Zvonetskoye with a missile strike, the Defense Ministry reported.
"Overnight in the village of Zvonetskoye, Dnipropetrovsk region, high-precision sea-based missiles destroyed the headquarters and location of the Dnepr nationalist battalion, where foreign mercenaries had recently arrived." ," Major General Igor Konashenkov said.
In addition, today the Black Sea Fleet frigate fired four Kalibr cruise missiles at Ukrainian military infostructure facilities.
Also in the Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions, Ukrainian S-300 air defence systems were destroyed and eight drones were shot down.All in all, overnight Russian aviation destroyed 86 Ukrainian facilities - two command posts, two ammunition depots, three fuel depots, three multiple rocket launchers, as well as 49 strongholds and areas where Ukrainian military equipment is concentrated.
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Vladimir Putin called its goal "to protect people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years." To this end, he said, it was planned to "demilitarize and denazify Ukraine," to put on trial all war criminals responsible for "bloody crimes against civilians" in Donbas.
According to a statement by the Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces are striking only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, and as of March 25, they had fulfilled the main task of the first stage - to reduce Ukraine's combat potential. The Russian military said that the main goal was the liberation of Donbass.
According to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights as of April 8, more than 1,600 civilians have been killed and more than two thousand wounded since the start of the Russian operation in Ukraine.
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