[Regnum] Over the past 24 hours, the Russian Armed Forces hit an assembly site for unmanned boats in the Odessa region, a deployment point for an Iris-T battery in the same region, and a drone production workshop in the Chernigov region, the Ministry of Defense reported on March 17.
“Operational-tactical aviation, missile forces and artillery of groupings of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation within 24 hours hit the assembly and testing sites of unmanned boats, the temporary deployment point of the battery of the Iris-T anti-aircraft missile system in the Odessa region, the assembly and preparation workshop for unmanned aerial vehicles in area of the settlement of Priluki, Chernihiv region,” said the official representative of the department, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, at a briefing of the Ministry of Defense.
Manpower and military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were also hit in 127 districts, he added.
In addition, on March 17, the Ministry of Defense announced the liberation of the village of Mirnoye in the Zaporozhye region in the southern Donetsk direction. All attempts by UAF saboteurs to penetrate the Russian border territory over the past 24 hours were stopped. Russian troops, in addition, occupied more advantageous positions in the Donetsk direction and repelled nine counterattacks by Ukrainian Armed Forces attack aircraft in the Avdeevka direction.
As Regnum news agency reported, on March 11, Konashenkov reported that the Russian Armed Forces hit two points of temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries in the zone of a special military operation. On the same day, a source in the security forces clarified that the Russian Armed Forces hit Ukrainian special operations forces and unmanned boat operators in the Odessa region with a missile strike.
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed temporary deployment points for militants in the Odessa region, as well as a drone assembly workshop in the Sumy region, Konashenkov said on March 16. Earlier on the same day, the chief of staff of the Joint Group of Forces, Colonel General Alexey Kim, reported at a meeting with the head of the Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu that almost 300 militants of the Ukrainian nationalist formation “Kraken” (an extremist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) were eliminated with one precise strike of a volumetric attack. detonating aerial bomb weighing 1500 kg.