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Ukrainian missile stocks and depleted-uranium shells destroyed – Moscow | Ukrainian missile stocks and depleted-uranium shells destroyed – Moscow |
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The Russian Defense Ministry says 12 major strikes targeting military infrastructure have taken place in the past week | The Russian Defense Ministry says 12 major strikes targeting military infrastructure have taken place in the past week |
Some of Ukraine’s Western-supplied cruise missiles and depleted-uranium shells have been destroyed in a series of strikes, the Russian Defense Ministry has said. | Some of Ukraine’s Western-supplied cruise missiles and depleted-uranium shells have been destroyed in a series of strikes, the Russian Defense Ministry has said. |
Since last Sunday, Russian forces carried out 12 group attacks against various Ukrainian targets, the ministry said in a statement on Saturday. | |
The targets included Ukrainian aircraft and armored vehicles repair facilities, oil refineries, depots of ammunition and foreign-made arms, training centers for Ukrainian saboteurs, and accommodation occupied by foreign mercenaries, the statement read. | |
According to the ministry, high-precision, long-range ground- and air-based missiles and drones were deployed during the strikes. | |
“As a result of the attacks, significant damage was delivered to the logistics system of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, operating in the Kherson and Zaporozhye directions,” the statement read. | |
“Part of the stocks of cruise missiles and depleted uranium shells” provided to Kiev by its Western backers were destroyed, it said. Foreign-made multiple rocket launchers and air-defense systems were also hit, the ministry added. |