Moscow-Sana
Yesterday, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that more than 300 Ukrainian soldiers and foreign mercenaries were eliminated and 35 units of heavy weapons were destroyed in the Ukrainian Nikolaev region.
"As a result of the bombing with high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the buildings of the Megatex Zinc Factory in the town of Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, up to 80 Polish mercenaries were eliminated, 20 armored combat vehicles and eight rocket launchers were destroyed," said ministry spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov. type (grad).
Konashenkov stressed that the refusal to carry out military tasks in the divisions of the Ukrainian army and regional defense continues, as the personnel of the 64th battalion of the 103rd regional defense brigade stationed in the city of Lvov refused to leave for the combat zone in Donbass due to the preparation of the untrained reserve crew and their lack of heavy weapons.
The spokesman continued: The Russian armed forces continue the special military operation in Ukraine, where tactical operational aviation, the army, missile and artillery forces bombarded Ukrainian manpower and military equipment in 284 districts, and two ammunition depots, missile and artillery weapons were destroyed in the Volchyarovka region of the Lugansk People's Republic, as well as field artillery and mortar units in 43 districts. .
Konashenkov added that as part of the anti-artillery battles, the precision-guided weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the direction of Donetsk hit eight artillery detachments of Uragan launchers in the Kurakhov, Ukrainsk, Novosilovka II and Vozdvizhinka regions, and artillery detachments in the Ukrainsk and Yasnobrodovka regions that were bombing Donetsk and other towns of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The spokesman explained that as a result of the air, missile and artillery strikes, more than 780 nationalist extremists were eliminated and eight tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, three Uragan combat launchers, 10 batteries of field artillery and mortars, and 13 special vehicles were destroyed.
According to the spokesman, the Russian air defense systems destroyed, during the last 24 hours, 21 Ukrainian drones in the Popasnaya and Kapitanovo regions of the Lugansk People’s Republic, Andreivka, Parvenkovo, Bolsheiy Prokhode, Velika Kamishvakha, Verbovka, Donetsk, Dolginka, Izyum, Malay Prokhode, Malaya Kameshvakha, Olkhovakhetyur Vyskophirovich, Malikopovycha and Cherubovykh And Molodognaya in the Kherson region and the regions of the island of Zmyene. A ballistic missile (Tochka O) was intercepted near the town of Maladozhnaya on the outskirts of Kherson, and 16 rocket-propelled grenades were intercepted near the towns of Prazhkovka Dolzhenkoy and Glinskoye on the outskirts of Kharkov and Avdiivka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
Konashenkov stressed that since the beginning of the special military operation to protect Donbass, 213 aircraft, 132 helicopters, 1,355 drones, 350 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,797 tanks and armored combat vehicles, 670 rocket launchers, 3,012 units of field artillery and mortars, and 3,848 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation to protect Donbass. .
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