Russian forces carried out more than 500 attacks on military targets in Ukraine on Tuesday night and destroyed 17 ammunition depots, as well as 59 units of military material, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday.
According to Ukrainian military spokesman General Igor Konashenkov, during Tuesday night Russian aviation hit 93 targets, including two command posts, 69 areas with regiments of soldiers and military material, as well as three ammunition depots. of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In addition, troops with rockets and artillery units attacked 407 areas with regiments of soldiers and military material, destroyed 13 command posts, four positions of Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile systems and 14 ammunition depots.
As a result of the attacks, Russia killed more than 280 soldiers and destroyed 59 units of military material, according to Konashenkov.
Likewise, air defense systems destroyed nine Ukrainian ‘drones’ overnight on Tuesday, including four near the village of Balakliya in the Kharkiv region; three near Rubizhne in Lugansk; another near Zmeiny Island (Snake Island) and a Turkish-made Bayraktar-TB2 near Arkhangelsk in the Mykolaiv region.
Russia launched a military offensive in Ukraine on February 24 that has killed more than 3,000 civilians, according to the latest UN data, which warns that the real number of civilian casualties is likely to be much higher.
The military offensive caused the flight of more than 13 million people, more than 5.6 million of them out of the country, according to the UN.
This is the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World War II (1939-1945) and the United Nations estimates that around 13 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance.
The Russian invasion was condemned by the international community in general, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and reinforcing economic and political sanctions on Moscow.
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