The MoD mentioned it has destroyed Javelin and NLAW man-portable missiles within the metropolis of Zhytomyr
An extended-range precision strike on a navy depot within the Ukrainian metropolis of Zhytomyr has destroyed a warehouse storing West-supplied weapons, the Russian Protection Ministry claimed in its newest replace on Saturday.
The warehouse was situated on a navy base within the northwest of Ukraine, the spokesman for the ministry, Main Basic Igor Konashenkov, mentioned. The location had been used to retailer the American and Anglo-Swedish Javelin and NLAW man-portable anti-tank techniques shipped to Ukraine within the run-up to the continuing disaster.
Konashenkov claimed the variety of Ukrainian navy infrastructure targets destroyed in the course of the operation had now surpassed 2,000. Russian troops and the allied forces of the Lugansk and Donetsk Folks’s Republics, Ukraine’s breakaway provinces, which Russia lately acknowledged as impartial states, have additionally made progress because the begin of the battle, he mentioned.
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The main basic introduced a short lived ceasefire for the cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha within the east, which shall be in operation from 10am to 4pm native time. He mentioned Russian and Ukrainian forces had agreed on establishing humanitarian corridors to permit civilians to evacuate from the 2 cities.
Russia invaded Ukraine 9 days in the past, citing the rising menace posed by NATO’s creeping growth, and what it claimed was continued Ukrainian violence in opposition to the breakaway areas to justify its offensive. Western nations have condemned it as an unprovoked act of aggression and imposed harsh sanctions meant to cripple the Russian financial system.
