The official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that there were no casualties in the Russian Armed Forces during the special operation being carried out in the Donbass.

He said that at present the main forces of the airborne troops have connected with the units of the Russian landing force at the Gostomel airfield, blocking the city of Kiev from the west.

“Units of the Russian Armed Forces continue to perform tasks in the area of ​​Kiev and other cities, showing courage and heroism,” Konashenkov stressed.

According to the Ministry of Defense, the groups of troops of the DPR and LPR are developing a successful offensive against the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with fire support from the Russian Armed Forces. On February 24, Russian military personnel conducted a successful landing operation in the area of ​​the Gostomel airfield in the suburbs of Kiev, more than 200 Russian helicopters were involved in it.

Konashenkov stressed that the success of the landing was ensured by the suppression of the entire air defense system in the landing area, the complete isolation of the combat area from the air and the active conduct of electronic warfare.

At the same time, the major general pointed out, the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not mainly participate in hostilities, only battalions of Ukrainian Nazis offer resistance. According to the Ukrainian servicemen themselves, who laid down their arms, the nationalists block the possibility of retreat and arrange lynching for conscripts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who do not want to fight, Konashenkov specified.

A few days earlier, the official representative of the People's Militia of the DPR, Eduard Basurin, said that mercenaries from a foreign private military company and fighters from the Right Sector (an organization banned in Russia) had arrived in Donbass.

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