Ukrainian defenders repulse seven enemy attacks, destroy nine tanks in JFO area

Ukrainian defenders successfully repulsed seven attacks by Russian invaders in the area of the Joint Forces Operation in the past 24 hours.

The JFO press service wrote this on Facebook, Ukrinform reports.

In particular, Ukrainian defenders destroyed 9 tanks, 7 units of armored vehicles and 5 units of enemy vehicles.

Ukrainian air defense units shot down two helicopters and one enemy cruise missile over Ukraine’s Donbas.

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the beginning of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian troops have been shelling and destroying key infrastructure facilities, conducting massive shelling of residential areas of Ukrainian cities and villages using artillery, multiple rocket launchers and ballistic missiles.

Martial law was imposed in Ukraine and general mobilization was announced.

The United States, the European Union, and other countries impose sanctions on Russia as an aggressor whose international isolation is growing by the day.

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