MOSCOW, March 28. /TASS/. An emergency meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council at the ambassadorial level was held on Kiev's initiative at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Ukraine's mission to NATO reported on Facebook (banned in Russia, owned by Meta Corporation, which is deemed extremist in Russia).

According to it, the meeting was convened due to the strikes on Ukrainian critical infrastructure facilities. The country's Defense Minister Rustem Umerov called on NATO to provide additional air and missile defense systems and missiles.

On March 22, the Russian Defense Ministry reported a massive strike with long-range precision weapons and drones on the facilities of the energy sector, military-industrial complex, railway hubs, arsenals, and places of deployment of Ukrainian military and mercenaries. According to the ministry, "all the goals of the massive strike have been reached."