Russia continues to fire missiles from the sea at Ukraine

Reuters news agency, citing Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov, said that the country carried out several airstrikes on Ukrainian military infrastructure on the night of March 19 and early morning of 20 March.

“The Kalibr cruise missile was launched from the Black Sea at the Nizhyn plant, which repairs Ukrainian armored vehicles damaged in the fighting,” said General Konashenkov.

The Kalibr long-range cruise missile was launched from a Russian Navy ship in the eastern Mediterranean. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense

In addition, Russia launched a Kalibr cruise missile from the Caspian Sea and a Kinzhal hypersonic missile (Russian for “dagger”) from the airspace over Crimea to destroy a fuel storage facility built by Russia. used by the Ukrainian army.

Russia also targeted a Ukrainian logistics center in the city of Ovruch in Zhitomir province with high-precision missiles. This is said to be the garrison of Ukrainian servicemen and foreign volunteers who came to fight in Ukraine.

Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on March 18 that the country used the Kinzhal hypersonic missile for the first time to attack an weapons depot in the village of Deliatyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk province, western Ukraine. Moscow once claimed this hypersonic weapon has a speed of 10 times faster than the speed of sound.

Since opening a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, Russia has mainly targeted regions in northern, southern and eastern Ukraine. However, since last week, Russia began to turn to targets in western Ukraine, located near the border with Poland.

After more than three weeks of hostilities, Russia has taken control of Kherson province, while continuing to step up its campaign to encircle many other major cities in Ukraine, including the capital Kiev and the northern city of Kharkiv and the port city of Mariupol. in the south.

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