The Russian Defence Ministry has released footage of one of the Russian frigates deployed in the Black Sea launching three 3M-54 Kalibr cruise missiles (NATO reporting name: SS-N-27 Sizzler). The missile salvo was targeting positions of the Ukrainian military and the country's military emplacements.
The ministry reported during the morning briefing that the Kalibr missiles had hit a battalion of Ukrainian military personnel near the town of Melioratyvnoe in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and destroyed their military equipment and arms.
The airstrikes are part of demilitarisation and de-Nazification efforts declared as the main goals of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine. It was ordered by President Vladimir Putin on 24 February in response to a request for assistance from the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) to "help repel the aggression from Ukrainian armed forces". Putin said that Russia "was forced" to start the operation to stop the killing of civilians in Donbass.
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