Moscow-Sana
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu today informed President Vladimir Putin of the complete liberation of the territory of the Lugansk People's Republic.
"Today, June 3, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu informed the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, of the liberation of the Lugansk People's Republic," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
In addition, during his media briefing today on the special military operation to protect the residents of Donbass, the Ministry’s spokesperson, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, stated that the high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed ten observation points in the Donetsk People’s Republic, including Lipetica, Nikolayev, Zelenodolsk and Dnepropetrovsk, and seven ammunition depots in the areas of the settlements of Konstantinovka and Bakhmut in Donetsk and Malaya-Chesternya in the Kherson region, Visunsk, Nikolaevka and Glade in the Nikolaev region, manpower centers and military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in another 15 regions.
Konashenkov added that in the artillery battles, high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed three artillery batteries and five mortar platoons in the Verkhenko-Minskoye regions of the Donetsk People's Republic, Belogorovka, Maloryazantsevo and Zolotarevka in the Lugansk Republic. Ammunition, in addition to centers of manpower and military equipment, in 287 areas.
Konashenkov indicated that the Russian air defense systems shot down two Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in Dibrovnoyi, in the outskirts of Kharkov and Kvitnovo in the Nikolaev region, and 10 Ukrainian drones were shot down in the Novoy, Zaporozhye and Volnovakia regions in the Donetsk Republic, Dmitrovka, Izyum, Berezovka and Kobyansk, in addition to the Kharkiv region. Interception of eight missiles, including four Hemars launchers in the Stakhanov region of the Lugansk Republic and four Uragan missiles in the Popasnaya regions of the Lugansk Republic, Kamenka in the Kharkov region and the city of Donetsk.
Konashenkov pointed out that at dawn today, the Kyiv regime carried out a deliberate strike with Tochka-O ballistic missiles stuffed with cluster munitions and Tu-143 Reyes drones on residential areas in Belgorod and Kursk, where there are no military facilities, stressing that this missile attack was planned and executed. intentionally against the civilian population of Russian cities.
He added: All three (Tochka O) ballistic missiles with cluster warheads were destroyed in the air by the Russian air defense systems, and as a result of the destruction of these missiles, the wreckage of one of them fell on a residential building in the city, pointing out that the Russian air defense systems destroyed two Tu-143 unmanned aircraft. Reyes) packed with explosives as they approach Kursk.
According to Konashenkov, since the beginning of the special military operation, 229 combat aircraft, 134 helicopters, 1,440 drones, 353 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,893 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 704 multiple launchers, 3,078 field artillery and mortars and 3,979 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.
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