Moscow/Kyiv: The Russian Defence Ministry on Saturday said the country’s army has targeted Ukraine’s military infrastructure with cruise missiles from the air and sea.
“During the night, the armed forces of the Russian Federation launched a strike with long-range precision weapons using air- and sea-launched cruise missiles against the military infrastructure of Ukraine,” Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in televised remarks, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
The spokesperson said the Russian Army only targeted military infrastructure without damaging the “residential and social infrastructure”.
Konashenkov claimed that the Russian troops had taken “full control” of the southeastern city of Melitopol.
“The Russian servicemen are taking all measures to ensure the safety of civilians and exclude provocations from the Ukrainian special services and nationalists,” he said on day three of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
The spokesman said the Russian Army has overall destroyed more than 820 military infrastructure facilities, including 14 airfields, 48 radar stations, and 24 S-300 and Osa anti-aircraft missile systems, in Ukraine.
Konashenkov said the Russian military have also shot down seven fighter jets, seven helicopters and nine drones.
He further said that 87 tanks and other armoured vehicles had also been destroyed, adding the Russian Navy has destroyed eight military boats.
Meanwhile, Ukranian government adviser Anton Herashchenko said a missile that struck a residential building in the capital Kyiv earlier on Saturday killed no one.
Asserting that Russia was lying about not shelling civilian infrastructure, the adviser to the interior minister said at least 40 such sites had been hit and the Russian troops were shelling civilian sites, Reuters reported.