Moscow-Sana
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that its armed forces managed during the past 24 hours to shoot down two Ukrainian fighters, destroy 8 marches, eliminate more than 720 extremists, and destroy 12 tanks and training centers for the Ukrainian forces.
Ministry spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said in a press briefing today that the towns of Voronovo and Sirotino have been under the supervision of the Lugansk People's Republic since yesterday, June 25, where 108 thousand people live.
He pointed out that the successes of the Russian army and the forces of the Donetsk and Lugansk republics significantly reduce the morale of the Ukrainian army, whose ranks have increased in cases of drunkenness, drug abuse and desertion from combat positions.
Konashenkov stated that using high-precision weapons and Kalibr missiles, intensive shelling was carried out on the 169th Ukrainian Ground Forces Training Center in the vicinity of the town of Desna in the Chernigov region, the 199th training center for the landing forces of Zhytomyr province, and the 184th center in the Lvov region, which resulted in the loss of the entire combat capability of the 66th mechanized infantry battalion and the mechanized battalion. 46th Air Force was among the reserve forces of the Ukrainian army that were training in those centers, and plans to transfer those forces to the area of combat operations were thwarted.
Konashenkov pointed out that Russian operational and tactical aviation, missile and artillery forces targeted combat forces and equipment at 268 sites, and artillery and mortar units destroyed 62 sites and two headquarters of the Ukrainian command in Nikolaev Province and four ammunition depots in the Lugansk Republic.
Konashenkov stated that the Russian forces, using high-precision weapons, destroyed 10 companies of the Ukrainian missile launcher systems in the Donetsk Republic, and in an air battle, a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter was shot down in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
He pointed out that the Ukrainian forces launched strikes by air and missile systems on the island of Zmini, which were repelled by the Russian (Pantsir-S) missile system, and a Ukrainian Su-25 fighter and 12 missiles were shot down without causing any casualties on the Russian side.
Konashenkov stated that the Russian anti-air defense forces had shot down 8 Ukrainian drones in the Lugansk Republic and the Kharkov region, and 19 rocket-propelled grenades were intercepted in the Kharkov region, the Donetsk Republic and over the island of Zmenyi.
According to Konashenkov, since the start of the special operation, 215 aircraft, 132 helicopters and 1,363 Ukrainian drones have been shot down, 350 anti-air missile systems, 3,809 tanks and other armored vehicles, 682 rocket launchers, 3,012 field guns and mortars and 4,864 special military vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been destroyed.
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