Moscow-Sana
The spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, announced that 694 militants, including 29 wounded from the Nazi Azov battalion, who were trapped in the Azovstal factory in Mariupol surrendered and laid down their weapons during the past 24 hours, noting that since the 16th of this month, 959 militants, including 80, have surrendered. The wounded were taken to the hospitals of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Konashenkov said in a media briefing today that with the use of high-precision air missiles, two command headquarters, including the headquarters of the Regional Defense Command, were destroyed in the vicinity of the town of Soledar in the Donetsk People's Republic, and 31 sites for mobilizing manpower and combat equipment, including the sites of foreign mercenary units from European countries in my cities. Nikolaev and Krasnogorovik.
Konashenkov said that two Su-24s were also destroyed at a military airfield in the vicinity of Dnipropetrovsk, a regiment of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems in the vicinity of Nikolayev, and 4 weapons and artillery ammunition depots in the towns of Uglidar, Pokrovskoye, Soledar and Bakhmut in the Donetsk Republic. While the Russian operational and tactical aviation destroyed 3 command headquarters and 41 sites for mobilizing Ukrainian manpower and combat equipment, and as a result of the air targeting, 270 Nazis were eliminated and 54 pieces of combat equipment were disabled.
Konashenkov indicated that the Russian missile and artillery forces destroyed 76 command headquarters, 421 manpower and combat equipment mobilization sites, and 147 artillery and mortar batteries. A Russian Su-25 aircraft was shot down in the vicinity of the town of Tripoli in the Donetsk People's Republic, and another MiG-29 was shot down in the vicinity of the town of Kamennaya Yaruga in the Kharkov region. Smyrch in Kharkov province.
The spokesperson for the Russian Defense confirmed that since the start of the special operation, 172 aircraft, 125 helicopters and 927 drones have been shot down, 311 anti-air missile systems, 3139 tanks and other armored vehicles, 389 rocket launchers, 1,548 field guns and mortars, as well as 2,997 special military vehicles have been destroyed. of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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