MOSCOW, April 19. /TASS/. Russian missile and artillery troops delivered strikes against 1,260 Ukrainian military sites overnight, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov said on Tuesday.

"The missile and artillery troops delivered strikes on 1,260 military facilities," the spokesman said.

The Russian forces wiped out 25 Ukrainian army command posts near the populated areas of Nikolayev and Kirovsk, two missile and artillery arms depots near the communities of Voskresensky and Nikolayev, two Buk-M1 surface-to-air missile launchers near Gulyaipole and Nikolayevka Vtoraya and also 1,214 places of the amassment of enemy manpower, the spokesman said.