Russia: More Than 100 Ukrainian Soldiers Laid Down Weapons

Russia's Defense Ministry said, on Monday, that around 110 Ukrainian soldiers voluntarily laid down their weapons over the past 24 hours.

The ministry's spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed that the Russian forces hit 1,146 Ukrainian military installations since the beginning of the “special operation”.

Among the targets were “31 command posts and communication centers, 81 S-300, Buk M-1 and Osa anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as 75 radar stations. Operationally, tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit six columns of armored vehicles of the Ukrainian armed forces," Konashenkov said.

Additionally, “311 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 42 aircraft and helicopters (including on the ground), 51 multiple launch rocket systems, 147 field artillery pieces and mortars, 263 units of special military vehicles were destroyed,” Konashenkov added.

Konashenkov also stated that troops had advanced further in both pro-Moscow regions in eastern Ukraine.

“The grouping of troops of the Luhansk People's Republic during the day continued to conduct offensive operations in the direction of the settlement of Kremennoye, moving forward for another 3 kilometers. In the past day, the units of the Armed Forces of the Donetsk People's Republic advanced 16 kilometers and captured the settlement of Zamozhnoye,” he affirmed.