People's Militia of the DPR reached the administrative border of the Donetsk region and joined the military units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which took control of the regions of Ukraine along the coast of the Sea of Azov, Russian Defense Ministry reports.
The exit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the Sea of Azov is completely blocked.
On March 1, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a strike with long-range air and sea-based high-precision weapons. Two airfields and three air defense radar posts were hit. The strikes excluded the defeat of civilian infrastructure and residential buildings.
In total, since the beginning of the operation, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have hit 1,325 objects of the military infrastructure of Ukraine.
Of these: 43 command posts and a communication centres of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
395 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 59 multiple rocket launch systems, 179 field artillery and mortars, 286 units of special military vehicles were destroyed.
