The Russian army announced on Thursday that the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine it assists have made territorial gains against the Ukrainian army, while Kiev has been facing a military invasion since the morning.
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According to General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, who spoke on television, the rebels advanced three kilometers in the Donetsk region and one and a half kilometers in the Lugansk region. He assured that Russia was aiming at military targets and that the civilians had “nothing to fear“. According to him, the separatistsfight and engage the enemyin Eastern Ukraine.
Igor Konashenkov assured that the Russian army was not targeting Ukrainian cities, but only “military infrastructure, air defense installations, military airfields and aviation” with some “high precision weapons“. “The civilian population has nothing to fear“, he launched. Ukraine, for its part, reported the death of more than 40 soldiers and a dozen civilians in the bombardments.
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