Moscow-Sana
The Russian Ministry of Defense indicated that the losses of the 34th battalion of the 57th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian forces, which were defeated near the town of Mirnaya Dolina in the Lugansk People's Republic, amounted to more than 150 dead and about 450 injured in two days. Each company of this battalion remained in no more than 15 to 20 soldiers and the commanding staff of junior officers abandoned their subordinates and left the combat zone.
In a media briefing today, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said that in the units of the 30th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Klinovoy region of the Donetsk People's Republic, as a result of the losses from the fire of the Russian armed forces, less than 50 personnel remained, and more than 170 soldiers and officers were evacuated from the combat zone. seriously injured.
The spokesman explained that yesterday, with the high-precision weapons of the Russian Air Force in the Nikolaev region, 49 fuel tanks for military equipment of the Ukrainian forces were destroyed, in addition to up to 50 missile launcher systems. And four command centers and a gathering of manpower and military equipment in 18 regions.
In a whole day, the Russian army’s aviation destroyed manpower and military equipment in 96 areas and a field radar center in the Konstantinovka district on the outskirts of Kharkov. Including a platoon of 155-mm howitzers M777 on the island of Kubansky and a platoon of Smerch rocket launchers in the Novopokrovskoye region of the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as the destruction of three mobile observation posts for drones in the Govtenvaya, Kislovka and Barmacho districts in the outskirts of Nikolayev.
Konashenkov added that as part of the artillery battles, eight Ukrainian platoons of Uragan launchers were destroyed with the precision weapons of the Russian Air Force, missile and artillery forces in the direction of Donetsk during the day yesterday in Avdiivka, Vesuloi, Dzerzhinsk and Novologanskoye Kordyumovka, as well as 11 artillery platoons of the Ukrainian forces in their positions in their positions in the Novobok and Novobokovka regions. Chasov Yar, Krutaya Balka, Avdiivka, Novoselovka and in the area of the Klipan Beg reservoir.
As a result of the Russian air, missile and artillery attacks, more than 650 Nazis, 17 tanks, armored fighting vehicles, three Smerch rocket launchers, and 17 Ukrainian special vehicles were destroyed during the whole day.
According to the statement, the Aerospace Defense Forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed 21 Ukrainian drones in the regions of Zmyene, Petropoli, Strelichi, Malaya Kamishevakha and Dementievka in the outskirts of Kharkov, Skadovsk in the Kherson and Donetsk region, Gorlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, Okino in the Lugansk People's Republic and Novaya Sprivka in the Kherson region. Tochka-class ballistics or in the Pesky Ratkovsky district of the Kharkov region, 22 rocket-propelled grenades in the Donetsk, Makievka, Gorlivka and Kamishevka regions of the Donetsk People's Republic, Chervonoy, Izyum and Sukhaya Kamenka in the Kharkov region and above the island of Zmyene.
Konashenkov indicated that since the beginning of the Russian special military operation, a total of 211 aircraft, 132 helicopters, 1,329 drones, 349 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,750 tanks and armored combat vehicles, 647 multiple launcher combat vehicles, 2,088 artillery and mortar batteries and 3,818 special military vehicles belonging to the Ukrainian forces have been destroyed.
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