Kiev (EFE).- The Ukrainian Air Force launched 14 attacks against areas of concentration of Russian human resources in the last day, while the probability of air and missile attacks throughout Ukraine by Russia remains high.
“During the last day, the aviation of the defense forces carried out 14 attacks against areas of concentration of enemy personnel. Our defenders also destroyed 2 anti-aircraft missile systems,” the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this morning.
For its part, Russia carried out 43 air strikes and 4 with missiles, and opened fire from multiple launch rocket systems on 51 occasions against Ukrainian troop positions and against populated areas, the military report said.
“The probability of missile and air strikes throughout Ukraine remains high,” it warns.
Russian defections in Luhansk
According to the Ukrainian military command, the Russian forces are concentrating their main efforts on the Liman, Bakhmut, Avdiyivka and Marinka fronts, where 26 clashes took place over the past day.
On the Zaporizhia and Kherson fronts, Russian forces continue to carry out defensive operations, the military report adds.
On the other hand, in the temporarily occupied territories of the Luhansk region, Russian defectors are fleeing the front.
In a forest near the Novorozsosh settlement, search operations for a group of Russian defectors were recorded, involving units of the Russian National Guard.
The Kremlin considers the objective of demilitarizing Ukraine fulfilled “to a large extent”
From the Kremlin, the spokesman for the Russian Presidency has assured today that the objective of demilitarizing Ukraine, declared by Moscow at the beginning of the military campaign in the neighboring country, has been fulfilled “to a large extent”.
According to Dmitri Peskov, Ukraine “is using less and less of its own weapons and more and more the weapons systems supplied by Western countries”-
Therefore, “one of the tasks” that the Russian side had set for itself “has in fact been largely accomplished,” he added.