Russia MoD unveils tally of 36th day of war in Ukraine
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Week five of the war in Ukraine brought additional losses to Ukrainian nationalists and artillery weapons depots in four cities.
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Russian soldiers in Balaclava (Reuters)
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that Lugansk People's Republic units have eliminated up to 40 Ukrainian nationalists, one artillery battery, two infantry fighting vehicles, and four other vehicles at night.
The ministry added that high-precision air-based weapons damaged 6 Ukrainian military facilities, in addition to five ammunition and missile-artillery weapons depots in four cities.
Furthermore, the ministry went on to say that the air defense units of the Russian Aerospace Forces have downed one Ukrainian Mi-8 war aircraft and eight Ukrainian drones.
In total, 124 aircraft and 81 helicopters, 353 drones, 1,839 tanks, and other armored combat vehicles, 202 multiple launch rocket systems, 773 field artillery, and mortars, as well as 1,711 Ukrainian Armed Forces special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
Russia had launched a special military operation in Ukraine to counter NATO's eastward expansion, the Ukrainian shelling of Donbass, and the killing of the people of the Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic, in addition to Moscow wanting to "denazify" and demilitarize Ukraine.
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