The Russian army launched a high-precision, long-range attack against two military air bases in the cities of Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine, rendering them inoperable, announced Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense.
He pointed out that since the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces have destroyed more than 3,210 Ukrainian military facilities and equipment.
Earlier, Konashenkov had pointed out that Pro-Russian separatist rebels have captured the Ukrainian town of Volnovakha, located north of Mariupol., a port city on the Sea of Azov that has been under siege by the Russian army for days.
Volnovakha is considered strategically important as it is the northern gateway to Mariupol..
Furthermore, the TASS agency, citing an anonymous source, reported that Approximately 222,000 people fled Ukraine to Russia and the two breakaway provinces in eastern Ukraine, Donetsk and Luhansk.
