The units of the Russian Armed Forces completely blocked the Ukrainian cities of Kherson and Berdyansk. On Sunday, February 27, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, told Lente.ru.
As stated in the department, the city of Genichevsk and the Chernobaevka airfield near Kherson also came under the control of the Russian military.
In turn, the troops of the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR), with the support of the Russian Armed Forces, took the settlements of Smolyaninovo, Novoakhtyrka and Stanichno-Luganskoe. The military of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) established control over Pavlopol and Pischevik.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to conduct a special operation in the Donbass. Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky announced the introduction of martial law in Ukraine and the severance of diplomatic relations with the Russian side.
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