Russian forces have destroyed a logistics terminal in Odessa that held a large batch of foreign weapons, Moscow said on Saturday amid its ongoing military offensive in Ukraine.
According to Russian military spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov, in the afternoon, “high-precision long-range air-launched missiles” hit a logistics terminal located on a military airfield near Odessa, where “a large batch of foreign weapons received from the United States and European countries was stored.”
The US and Europe have been delivering both lethal and non-lethal weapons worth billions of dollars to Ukraine since the start of Russia’s military operation there.
The Russian Aerospace Forces have disabled a logistics terminal outside Odessa where foreign weapons from the US and European countries were stored, Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Saturday.
Earlier this week, the US announced a new package of military assistance to Kiev worth about $800 million, including 200 M113 armoured personnel vehicles, 18 155mm howitzers, and 500 Javelin portable anti-tank missile systems. Britain also said it would continue delivering arms to Ukraine and will send its high-tech Stormer armoured missile launchers to Kiev.
Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine has entered its 59th day. It was launched on 24 February in response to requests from Ukraine’ breakaway republics of Donetsk and Lugansk to help them protect their civilian population amid intensified shelling by Kiev’s forces. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, one of key goals of the operation is to carry out “demilitarisation and de-Nazification” of Ukraine to stop neo-Nazi radicals from abusing the Russian-speaking population in Donbass and hold them accountable for the crimes committed against innocent people in the past eight years.