On the night of February 25, a missile strike was launched at the Primorsky Posad border unit in the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine, the State Border Service of the country reported. As a result, there are dead and wounded, their number is not specified.
A few hours earlier, the agency announced that Ukraine had lost control over the Snake Island in the Black Sea, which is part of the Kiliysky district of the Odessa region. The service said that the infrastructure of the island was destroyed as a result of shelling by naval artillery, and the department could not contact the border guards and military who were there.
Zelensky assessed Ukraine’s losses on the first day of Russia’s military operation
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his decision to launch a military operation in the Donbass after the appeal of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, explaining this by “demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.” He assured that Moscow was not going to occupy the neighboring state.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the armed forces are striking at the military infrastructure and aviation of Ukraine, nothing threatens the civilian population. According to the agency, the Russian military disabled 83 ground facilities of Ukraine’s military infrastructure.