The Russian Defense Ministry reports details on the hostilities in Ukraine:
The grouping of troops of the Luhansk People's Republic in the Stepovoe area advanced to a depth of up to 9 kilometers.
During the hostilities, more than 150 servicemen of various power structures of Ukraine laid down their arms and surrendered.
In the area of Zmeiny Island, 82 Ukrainian servicemen laid down their arms and voluntarily surrendered to a unit of the Russian Armed Forces.
Another 11 servicemen of the 53rd separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrendered near Nikolaevsk settlement.
In the course of a special military operation, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed 118 military facilities of the military infrastructure of Ukraine.
Among them: 11 military airfields, 13 command posts and communication centres of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 14 S-300 and Osa anti-aircraft missile systems, 36 radar stations.
Shot down: 5 combat aircraft, 1 helicopter, 5 unmanned aerial vehicles.
18 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 7 multiple rocket launchers, 41 units of special military vehicles and 5 combat boats were destroyed.
Yesterday, February 24, units of the Russian Airborne Troops took full control of the territory in the area of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
An agreement was reached with the servicemen of a separate battalion of protection of the nuclear power plant of Ukraine on joint security of the power units and the sarcophagus of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
The radioactive background in the area of the nuclear power plant is normal. NPP personnel continue to maintain NPP facilities in the normal mode and monitor the radioactive situation.
The joint actions of Russian paratroopers and Ukrainian servicemen of the NPP security battalion to defend the plant is a guarantee that nationalist formations or other terrorist organizations will not be able to take advantage of the current situation in the country to organize a nuclear provocation.
