Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said: “High-precision air-launched missiles hit the army’s secret operations forces training center Ukrainewhere foreign mercenaries were stationed, near the settlement of Ovruch in the Zhitomir region”Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said and said more than 100 soldiers and mercenaries were destroyed.
At the same time, he also noted that the Russian military removed one of Ukraine’s main fuel bases and a large number of other military objects.
However, Ukraine has not confirmed or commented on this information.
Russian forces, as well as the DPR and LPR militias, continued their advance in the Donbass, tightening the siege around the remaining Ukrainian troops in Mariupol and taking control of many settlements.
Earlier, on March 19, RT quoted sources as saying that Moscow deployed Kinzhal missiles for the first time since the beginning of the military operation.
The Russian military says it used its state-of-the-art Kinzhal hypersonic missile to destroy an weapons depot near the city of Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the attack by an air-launched missile system took place on March 18. It targeted “a large underground storage of missiles and aerial weapons of Ukrainian forces” in the village of Deliatyn, he added.
Kinzhal, which means ‘dagger’ in English, was used by the Russian military for the first time since the start of the Ukraine conflict on February 24.
These weapons are said to be able to penetrate any existing air defense system by flying at top speeds of up to Mach 10 and continuously maneuvering throughout their flight.
The Kinzhal missile is carried by a MiG-31K supersonic interceptor that NATO calls ‘Foxhound’.
Moscow sent troops into Ukraine last month after seven years of stalemate over Kiev’s failure to live up to the terms of the Minsk agreement and ultimately Russia’s recognition of the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.
Russia has now demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country and will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian attack is completely unprovoked and denies it is planning to retake the two self-proclaimed republics by force.
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