Moscow-Sana
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that the Russian forces killed about 275 Ukrainian nationalists and destroyed 5 command centers and 151 gathering points of Ukrainian forces during yesterday.
Ministry spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said in a briefing today that as a result of the offensive actions of the Russian Armed Forces the town of Ude in the Kharkov region was completely liberated, up to 40 Nazi nationalists were eliminated and 9 units of military equipment were destroyed by high-precision strikes by the aerospace forces. The Russian Army at the temporary deployment point of the 66th Mechanized Brigade in the town of Dzerzhinsk, Donetsk People's Republic.
The spokesman added: As a result of the strikes launched by the Russian Air Force on the gathering of manpower and military equipment of the 63rd mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian forces in the Belaya-Krinitsa and Belogorka regions of the Kherson region, 35 Nazi nationalists were eliminated and 15 units of armored equipment and vehicles of the Ukrainian forces were destroyed, as well as concentrated fire strikes. On the positions of the 53rd mechanized brigade of Ukrainian troops in the town of Srebnoye, Donetsk People's Republic, up to 200 ultra-nationalists were destroyed and 15 units of military equipment were destroyed.
The spokesman added that in the towns of Pervomaiskoye and Obetnoye in the Donetsk People's Republic, more than 200 soldiers of the 56th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian forces refused to carry out combat missions and left their positions en masse due to heavy losses. 580 people, according to the payroll, only 140 soldiers.
According to the spokesman, Russian operational and tactical aviation, the army, missile forces and artillery continue to bombard military installations on the territory of Ukraine, as a radar station for detecting and targeting targets was destroyed in the town of Peresadovka in the Nikolayev region, a fuel tank in the Slavyansk region, and two ammunition depots in the towns of Zvanovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Skrovka in the Kirovograd region, and two depots were destroyed. Rocket and artillery weapons of the 58th mechanized infantry brigade in Artyomovsk, Donetsk People's Republic and the 63rd mechanized brigade.
According to the spokesman, five command posts were bombed, including the command of the 43rd Airborne Brigade in Velika Novoselka, the artillery group of the 79th Airborne Attack Brigade in the Chasov Yar region of the Donetsk People's Republic, the headquarters of the 247th battalion of the 127th Regional Defense Brigade in the city of Kharkov and four temporary deployment points of brigade units Territorial defense 113 in the town of Zolochev of the Kharkov region, as well as concentrations of manpower, weapons and military equipment in 151 districts.
In the anti-battery battles, a platoon of Grad launchers in Artyomovsk, an artillery platoon of Gyatsent B guns, as well as seven platoons of D30 howitzers of the ultra-nationalists were bombarded at their positions in Zvanovka, Kuzminovka, Seversk, Berezdnoye and Vysioloi Viimka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
During the past 24 hours, the Russian air defense systems, according to the spokesman, shot down two drones over Leschansk in the Luhansk People's Republic and Globokoy in the Kharkov region, and a Tochka O ballistic missile was intercepted over Leschansk in the Lugansk People's Republic and 15 rocket launchers in the Leschansk regions of the Lugansk People's Republic Antonovka and Novaya Kakhovka on the outskirts of Kherson.
Konashenkov confirmed that since the beginning of the special military operation, a total of 267 aircraft, 148 helicopters, 1,738 drones, 365 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,303 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 798 multiple launcher systems, 3,298 pieces of field artillery and mortars, and 4,888 special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.
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