Russian Missiles Destroy Major Consignments Of Weapons Arriving In Ukraine From US, EU

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Russian Missiles Destroy Major Consignments Of Weapons Arriving In Ukraine From US, EU
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“The logistics center and large consignments of foreign weapons that arrived in Ukraine over the past six days from the US and European countries were destroyed,” Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov reported.

MOSCOW, April 18. /TASS/. The Russian Aerospace Forces have destroyed a logistics center with major consignments of foreign weapons that arrived in Ukraine in the past six days from the US and European countries, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov reported on Monday.

Konashenkov said that in the morning, high-precision airborne missiles of the Russian Airospace Forces delivered a strike on the 124th Joint Logistics Support Center of the Ukrainian troops’ Logistics Forces Command in the area of Lvov.

“The logistics center and large consignments of foreign weapons that arrived in Ukraine over the past six days from the US and European countries were destroyed,” the major general said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24, in response to a request by the heads of the Donbass republics, made a decision to conduct a special military operation. He stressed that Moscow’s plans did not include occupation of Ukrainian territories; the goal is the demilitarization and denazification of the country TASS reported.

Russian Strike Wipes Out Logistics Base Near Lvov Containing Large Amounts of Western Arms: MoD, confirms SputnikNews

Screengrab from MoD briefing on the destruction of a large military logistical facility in western Ukraine. 18 April 2022. - Sputnik International, 1920, 18.04.2022
© Photo : Screengrab / Russian Defence Ministry
The US and its allies have sent billions of dollars-worth of weaponry to Ukraine over the years, and committed billions more after Russia and its Donbass allies began a military operation in the country in February. Last week, US officials said Moscow had “warned” the White House to stop sending advanced arms or face “unpredictable consequences”
A Russian precision airstrike has wiped out a logistics facility outside Lvov in western Ukraine containing large amounts of US and European weaponry, MoD spokesman Igor Konashenkov has announced.
“On the morning of 18 April, air-launched missiles fired by the Russian Aerospace Forces delivered a precision strike against the 124th Joint Logistics Center of the Logistics Forces Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Lvov. The logistics centre and a large batch of foreign weapons delivered to Ukraine over the past six days from the United States and European countries was destroyed,” Konashenkov said in a briefing Monday.
Separately, Russian strikes destroyed a large ammunition depot near the village of Vasilkov near Kiev, the officer said.
Konashenkov said Russian missiles targeted a total of 16 mililtary facilities in Ukraine over the course of the day, among them two command posts, two strongholds containing Ukrainian troops, and areas containing concentrations of enemy personnel and military equipment near the settlements of Popasna, Barvenkovo and Krasny Lyman in Lugansk, Kharkov and Donetsk.

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