📌 Russian MoD briefs on day 30 of Ukraine special op:

▪️ Russian forces advance another 4 km, taking control of 5 settlements;

▪️ 51 Ukrainian military targets have been eliminated;

▪️ Sea-based Kalibr high-precision long-range cruise missiles destroy a major fuel base near Kiev;

▪️ Russian Ka-52 and Mi-28n helicopters hit 24 units of military equipment, including seven tanks, five infantry fighting vehicles and three armored personnel carriers overnight;

▪️ Russian air defence units shot down two Ukrainian drones;

▪️ In total, 261 drones, 204 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,587 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 163 multiple launch rocket systems, 636 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,397 Ukrainian Armed Forces special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation

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Latest briefing from Russia's Ministry of Defence:

▪ The operation in Ukraine is going according to plan, apart from the unnecessary casualties among the civilian population which was the operation's priority;

▪ Ukraine's air force and air defences have been almost completely destroyed, and the Ukrainian Navy has ceased to exist;

▪ 16 main military Ukrainian airfields have been destroyed;

▪ Ukrainian troops have lost 30,000 soldiers in a month;

▪ 1,587 out of 2,416 tanks and other combat armoured vehicles that were in the Ukrainian army's service as of 24 February, have been destroyed;

▪ 112 out of 152 military aircraft, 75 out of 149 helicopters, 35 out of 36 Bayraktar TB2 drones, 148 out of 180 S-300 and Buk M1 missile systems, and 117 out of 300 radar stations have been destroyed;

▪ 127 bridges have been obliterated in Ukraine, all of them blown up by Ukrainian nationalists to deter the offensive;

▪ Russia's military will immediately respond to attempts to close the airspace over Ukraine

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