Moscow - (Saba):
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday that Russian forces launched attacks with glide bombs on a temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Novo-Ekonomicheskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic and a fortified point in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Sputnik quoted the ministry as saying in a statement that "temporary fortified deployment points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, hidden in forest belts, were discovered during reconnaissance activities carried out by units of the Russian Armed Forces."
The ministry added, "The command made a decision to destroy the enemy's air defense systems with air attack weapons at the moment when the greatest concentration of personnel was located there."
The statement read: "The Russian Aerospace Forces carried out an air strike using three FAB-500 bombs equipped with a universal guidance and correction unit against a temporary deployment point of a Ukrainian Armed Forces unit in the Novo-Ekonomicheskoye district of the Donetsk People's Republic."
The ministry explained that the second air strike, using a FAB-1500 bomb equipped with a universal guidance and correction unit, was carried out against a fortified air defense position of a Ukrainian Armed Forces unit in the area of a settlement in the Dnipropetrovsk region.