Russian Defense: 265 Ukrainian militants and soldiers surrendered at the Azovstal factory

Moscow-Sana

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov announced the surrender of 265 militants of the Nazi Azov battalion and surrounded Ukrainian soldiers at the Azovstal factory in Mariupl during the past 24 hours, including 51 seriously wounded.

Major General Konashenkov said in a press briefing today that with the use of high-precision and long-range cruise missiles stationed in the Naval Kleber model, in the vicinity of the Starichi railway station in the Lvov region, the strength of Ukrainian reserve units, as well as a quantity of weapons and combat equipment manufactured by the United States and European countries were Prepared for transportation to the Donbass region.

The spokesman added that using air and ground precision missiles, enemy reserves that had completed their combat training were targeted at training centers in the town of Akhtyrka in the Sumy province and the town of Desna in the Chernigov province. From mobilization sites of Ukrainian manpower and combat equipment and depots of weapons, missile and artillery munitions in the towns of Ugledar and Kostenovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.

According to the spokesman, 470 Nazis were eliminated, 68 pieces of combat equipment were disabled, and a mobile electrical station was destroyed in the vicinity of the Mereva railway station in the Kharkov province, which was supplying equipment for transporting American and Western weapons and combat equipment to the Donbass.

The spokesman indicated that the Russian operational and tactical aviation destroyed 9 command headquarters, 93 sites for mobilizing Ukrainian manpower and combat equipment, and 3 ammunition depots in the towns of Lubarevo and Shevtenko in Nikolaev Province. Mortars, 4 batteries of Grad rocket launchers, and 2 wireless target detection stations.

Russian anti-aircraft defenses shot down 23 Ukrainian drones in the towns of Bitumkin, Izum, Snezhkovka, Olkhovatka, Dementivka, Russkaya Lazovaya, Bolshey Prokhode and Petrovskoye in the Kharkov region, Staromykhailovka, Novotamarovka, Novotroitskoye, Nevolskoye, Sverdlovo, and Smirdlovo, the Wavdeyevka People’s Republic in the town of Smirdlov, the Wavdeevka 8. Kherson province.

Yesterday, the spokesman explained that the Nazis had fired Smyrch-style rocket launchers at residential neighborhoods in Kherson, and Russian air defense forces had intercepted all the 10 rockets fired by the Nazis.

Konashenkov stressed that there are no Russian forces in the city of Kherson, and this is what the Kyiv regime knows well. However, the residential neighborhoods of the city were deliberately bombed in retaliation against Russia.

The spokesman indicated that since the start of the special military operation, 168 aircraft, 125 helicopters and 912 drones have been shot down, 309 anti-air missile systems, 3134 tanks and other armored vehicles, 385 rocket launchers, 1,542 field guns and mortars, as well as 2,983 military vehicles have been destroyed. Ukrainian Special Forces.

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