Moscow, SANA-
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that its forces destroyed during the past 24 hours hundreds of manpower mobilization sites and military equipment, including dozens of command headquarters, downed three fighters and 13 Ukrainian marchers, as part of its special and ongoing military operation to protect the residents of Donbass.
The spokesman for the Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said in a press briefing today that with the use of high-precision and long-range missiles with a naval base, weapons and combat equipment of the 10th Mountain Offensive Regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed in the vicinity of the Malin railway station in Zhytomyr province, which was transported to Donbass from the area Ivanofrankovsk.
He stated that four command headquarters and a communications node of the “Sever” tactical operational group were also destroyed in the vicinity of the town of Bakhmut in the Donetsk People’s Republic, 48 sites for the mobilization of manpower and combat equipment, six ammunition depots in different towns in the Lugansk People’s Republic, as well as an “Osa” anti-air missile system. Akm” in the vicinity of the town of Bakhmut.
He announced that operational and tactical aviation targeted 39 sites for mobilizing manpower and combat equipment and destroyed a weapons depot in the Lugansk Republic, 230 Nazis were eliminated and 33 pieces of Ukrainian combat equipment were disabled.
Konashenkov indicated that, during the past 24 hours, the Russian air defense forces had also shot down three Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft and 13 drones, including one "Bayraktar TB2", and two Tochka-O and 8 rocket launchers were also intercepted. Shells of Smerch launchers in the Kherson and Kharkov regions and the Donetsk and Lugansk republics.
He stated that the missile and artillery forces destroyed 73 command headquarters, 578 manpower and combat equipment mobilization sites, 37 artillery and mortar positions, 13 tanks, an armored infantry vehicle, 5 Grad launcher systems and 3 ammunition depots.
According to Konashenkov, since the start of the special operation, 177 aircraft, 125 helicopters and 990 drones have been shot down, 319 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,226 tanks and other armored vehicles, 421 rocket launchers, 1,643 field guns and mortars, as well as 3106 special military vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been destroyed.
