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Russia declares to destroy US weapons transferred to Ukraine

The Russian Defense Ministry announced that it destroyed a number of weapons from the United States and European countries that aided Ukraine during an air raid near Odessa.

According to a statement today by the Russian Defense Ministry, the Russian military used high-precision Oniks cruise missiles to attack the military airport near the city of Odessa, southwestern Ukraine. The attack destroyed the airport runway and many weapons donated by the United States and European countries to Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said, without giving details.

Maksym Marchenko, governor of Odessa province, earlier confirmed that Russian forces had launched a missile that damaged a newly built airstrip at the main airport of the port city of Odessa. However, Marchenko said that the weapon used by Russia was the Bastion shore missile, which was fired from the Crimean peninsula.

Ukraine and related parties have not commented on this information. The US and its Western allies recently provided heavy weapons aid to Ukraine in response to Russia’s military campaign.





Javelin anti-tank missiles donated by the US to Ukraine are loaded onto trucks in Kiev in February. Photo: AFP.

Javelin anti-tank missiles donated by the US to Ukraine were loaded onto a truck in Kiev in February. Photo: AFP.

The Russian Defense Ministry added that the country’s air defense forces shot down two Su-24 bombers of the Ukrainian Air Force in Kharkov province on the night of April 30.

During a press conference a day ago, General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, announced that the Russian air force had raided five ammunition depots of the Ukrainian army and killed another 200 “nationalist elements”.

The Russian Air Force also attacked two command posts, nine company-sized gathering points and destroyed 23 enemy armored vehicles. Russian artillery and rockets bombarded 319 areas with a lot of weapons and manpower of the Ukrainian army, 12 command posts and two weapons depots.

Ukraine’s military says at least nine Russian advances in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions have been stopped.

According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army, Russia is bombing and shelling many areas across the country, from Kharkov in the north to Zaporizhzhia in the south. One of the important targets hit by Russia was the industrial town of Sloviansk in the Donetsk Oblast in the Donbass region.

In the south, in addition to missile strikes on Odessa, Russian forces also consolidated their control capacity throughout Kherson province. The Ukrainian military said that Russia has shown signs of preparing its forces for a new offensive against the cities of Mykolaiv and Kryvyi Rih in the south of the country.





Russian-controlled areas in eastern and southern Ukraine.  Graphics: BBC.

Russian-controlled areas (red) in eastern and southern Ukraine. Graphics: BBC.

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