Xinhua News Agency, Moscow, April 18 (Reporter Yellow River) Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Konashenkov said on the 18th that the Russian army destroyed a large number of weapons and equipment that arrived in Ukraine from the United States and Europe that day.
Konashenkov said in the briefing that on the morning of the 18th, the Russian Aerospace Forces used high-precision air-based missiles to attack a Ukrainian logistics support center in the Lviv region of western Ukraine, destroying the shipments from the United States and European countries in the past 6 days. Lots of weapons here.
Konashenkov said that the Russian Aerospace Forces attacked 84 military targets in Ukraine that day, destroying 1 missile repair factory, 2 ammunition depots, 1 fuel depot, 47 Ukrainian military personnel and equipment concentration areas, 22 Artillery firing positions.
The Russian rocket artillery unit hit 331 military targets on the Ukrainian side that day, including 9 command posts, 1 weapons depot, and 315 Ukrainian military personnel concentration areas.
Konashenkov said that since the launch of the special military operation, the Russian army has destroyed a total of 139 fixed-wing aircraft, 483 drones, 250 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,337 tanks and other armored vehicles, 254 multi-role vehicles of the Ukrainian army. Rockets, 1009 field artillery and mortars, 2196 special military vehicles.
The governor of Ukraine's Lviv state, Kozytsky, said on social media on the 18th that the Russian army fired four missiles at the city of Lviv that morning, three of which hit military installations and one hit a car tire shop.
At least six people were killed and eight injured in the attack.
(Participating reporters: Li Ming, Li Dongxu)