Moscow-Sana
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that its armed forces today completed their missions on the Black Sea island of Zminyi and withdrew their units there as a goodwill gesture to facilitate the transportation of Ukrainian grain abroad and to show that Russia is not obstructing the efforts of the United Nations for this.
"The decision to withdraw does not allow Kiev to bet on the issue of the food crisis and to pretext that it is not possible to export grain due to Russia's comprehensive control over the northwestern part of the Black Sea, as the decision now rests with the Ukrainian side, which refuses to remove mines from The sea coasts at the Ukrainian shores, including the docks in the ports.”
Concerning the outcome of the military operation during the twenty-four hours, Konashenkov said that the Russian forces targeted, with high-precision and long-range naval weapons, the headquarters of the Khritsa Group in the vicinity of the city of Dnipropetrovsk, the headquarters of the Ukrainian Regional Defense Division No. In the town of Shevchenko, Nikolaev Province.
Konashenkov noted that the strikes resulted in the elimination of about 20 Ukrainian military personnel, more than 80 foreign mercenaries, the destruction of 6 armored vehicles and combat vehicles, more than 1,000 artillery shells, 300 mortar mines and 100 rocket launchers.
Konashenkov explained that as a result of the fire targeting of the positions of the Ukrainian forces in the Donetsk Republic, the losses of the Ukrainian side amounted to more than 50 percent in the 14th and 56th divisions, pointing out that due to the heavy losses and lack of supplies in the 34th Regiment of the 57th Mechanized Division, 13 Ukrainian soldiers, including officers, withdrew from their positions. .
Konashenkov confirmed that the Russian armed forces destroyed, with high-precision weapons, five ammunition and weapons depots in the Kharkov and Zelenodolsk regions of the Dnepropetrovsk region, as well as Seversk and Bakhmut in the Donetsk Republic, in addition to gatherings of manpower and military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 34 regions.
Konashenkov stated that as part of the artillery battles, high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit two platoons of the “Uragan” and “Grad” launchers in the Svetlodarskoye and Avdiivka regions, in addition to the “Gyatsent B” artillery platoons in the Avdiivka region of the Donetsk Republic, as well as the bombing of tactical operational aviation. The army, missile forces and artillery have 39 command points and a gathering center for manpower and military equipment in 218 towns.
Konashenkov said that the operational and tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down two Su-25s of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Shyroko, Dnepropetrovsk and Arkhangelsko regions of the Kherson suburbs, and also destroyed a missile of the Buk M1 air defense system at a firing position in the Odessa region and the S-300 air defense radar station. Near the village of Slavgorod, Dnepropetrovsk region.
Konashenkov announced that the Russian air defense systems had shot down a Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 near Sovivka in the Donetsk Republic, in addition to nine Ukrainian drones in the Berestov and Petrovinki regions of Donetsk, Zhivotnovo, Perak, Getmanovka, Ivangokovka and Beremoga regions in the outskirts of Kherson, and five missile launchers were also intercepted. Multiple in the Stakhanov region of the Lugansk Republic and in the region of Zmyene Island.
According to Konashenkov, since the beginning of the special military operation, 224 aircraft, 134 helicopters, 1,400 drones, 353 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,859 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 698 multiple launchers, 3,059 artillery batteries and mortars, and 3,916 units of special military vehicles were destroyed.
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