Russia’s Protection Ministry confirmed stories that its navy forces suffered casualties after launching the invasion of Ukraine.
At a day by day briefing in Moscow, ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov stated “Russian servicemen confirmed braveness and heroism whereas performing fight duties” however admitted that there have been useless and wounded, and a few of them have been captured.
Konashenkov stated the Ukrainian forces tortured just a few captured Russian troopers.
“All faces, voices, telephones, their coordinates, IP addresses, in addition to correspondence of all Ukrainian Nazis concerned within the torture of our comrades have been recorded and recognized. This additionally applies to the leaders of the Kyiv regime and their perpetrators, who instantly name for bullying of Russian servicemen in violation of the conference on the therapy of prisoners of battle,” he stated.
“All of you can be discovered and can inevitably bear extreme duty,” he warned.
Konashenkov stated Ukrainian captives have been being handled respectfully and can return to their households after the tip of the operation.
Based on Konashenkov, because the starting “of the particular navy operation” on Thursday, the Russian armed forces hit 1,067 targets of Ukraine’s navy infrastructure, together with 27 management factors and communication facilities, 38 anti-aircraft missile programs of air protection S-300s, Buk M-1 and Osa, in addition to 56 radar stations.
“Simply at this time, seven anti-aircraft missile programs have been destroyed, together with one S-300 close to town of Kramatorsk,” he stated.
Earlier, 254 tanks and different armored fight autos, 31 plane on the bottom, 46 a number of rocket launchers, 103 discipline artillery and mortars, 164 items of particular navy autos have been disabled, he stated.
Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced a “particular navy operation” in Ukraine on Thursday, days after recognizing two separatist-held enclaves in jap Ukraine.
He claimed that Moscow had no plan to occupy its neighbor however wished to “demilitarize” and “denazify” Ukraine.
In response, Western powers imposed monetary sanctions on Moscow and introduced navy and humanitarian help for Kyiv.
