Pentagon: Russia has fired more than 400 missiles at Ukraine so far

Russia has fired more than 400 missiles at Ukraine to date (Tuesday), US media reported, quoting the US official.

The Pentagon official, who has been speaking to US reporters on a daily basis since the start of the war in Ukraine but did not want to be named, added on Tuesday local time that a number of Ukrainian missile defense systems were still operational and had not been attacked. اند.

The US official also said that Russia had not yet achieved its air superiority and that in some parts of Ukraine, Russian forces had been able to maintain that superiority.

On the sixth day of military operations in Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the destruction of 1,325 Ukrainian military bases and infrastructure, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelinsky announced that all major cities in the country were under siege by Russian forces.

Criticizing the West’s indifference to Moscow’s security concerns, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that his country recognizes the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics and signed cooperation and friendship agreements with the leaders of those republics at the Kremlin Palace.

In a speech on Russian national television on the morning of Thursday, February 24, Putin announced military action in Donbas and called on Ukrainian forces to lay down their weapons and go home.

As the fire of war continues, the flood of global reactions to the event continues, and diplomatic pressure and international threats and sanctions against Russia are increasing.

Many countries around the world, including European countries and the United States, immediately condemned Russia’s move as a war against Ukraine, and began to redouble their diplomatic and economic pressure on Russia.