Moscow-Sana
In the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that the special military operation to protect the Donbass population had resulted in the killing of 100 Ukrainian Nazis, the downing of a fighter jet, three helicopters, 11 drones, and the destruction of two US-made missile launchers.
About 100 Ukrainian neo-Nazis were eliminated and four units of military equipment were destroyed during a raid by the Russian Aerospace Forces on the temporary deployment point of the 22nd Mechanized Infantry Battalion of the 92nd Mechanized Brigade located in Kharkov, Ministry Spokesperson Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported.
He pointed out that high-precision air-launched missiles destroyed two US-made Hemars launchers and two ammunition depots for them in the Malotaranovka region of the Donetsk People's Republic and in the Shirokolanovka region of the Nikolaev region. In addition to a temporary deployment point for foreign mercenary units in the Limani district on the outskirts of Nikolaev.
Konashenkov stated that on the eastern outskirts of the town of Soledar, Russian forces destroyed a missile and artillery weapons depot of the 57th mechanized brigade, which contained 1,500 shells of various calibers and more than a hundred anti-tank missile systems of foreign production.
Konashenkov said that during the past 24 hours, the Russian Air Force destroyed six command posts, including the command post of the Operational Group of the Southern Forces, the 79th Air Assault and the 57th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the towns of Pashtanka, Nikolayev and Soledar, and six weapons and ammunition depots in the Pashtanka regions on the outskirts of Nikolayev. Ivano-Daryevka, Zaitsevo, Zvanovka, Artyomovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic and Kharkov, as well as destroyed the pool of manpower and military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 27 other regions.
Konashenkov added that as part of the artillery battery battles, a platoon of “Urugan” multiple launchers was destroyed, and three artillery platoons were wounded in firing positions in the Dzerzhinsk and Leninskoye regions of the Donetsk People’s Republic, in addition to a platoon of “Grad” rocket launchers in Voskresenskoye, Nikolayev region, as well as operational bombing. Tactical, army, missile forces and artillery centers of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 77 districts.
Konashenkov stated that Russian Su-35 fighters shot down two Mi-24 helicopters and one Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force during one air battle near the towns of Nikolaevka and Snegirevka in the Nikolaev region, and a helicopter was shot down by Russian air defense systems. Mi-8 of the Ukrainian Air Force in the outskirts of Pervomaiskoye in the Nikolaev region, in addition to 11 Ukrainian drones in the Zeleny Gay regions, Nikolayev region, Vernopolye, Dolzhenko, Mali, Prokhode, Topolskoye, Chervonaya Groshovka in the Kharkov region, Chernobaevka, Grozovoy and Novofeldimirovka in Kherson and Alexandrup regions.
He pointed out that nine Ukrainian "Tochka-O" ballistic missiles were also intercepted in the towns of Chernobaevka in the suburbs of Kherson and Pervomaisk in the Donetsk Republic, Khoroshi, Slavyanosserbsk, Kalinov, Troitsky and Stakhanov in the Lugansk Republic, and eight multiple launchers in the town of Dolzhenkoy, Luganka, Kharkiv and Chernopiv region.
According to Konashenkov, since the beginning of the special military operation, 232 aircraft, 137 helicopters, 1,462 unmanned aerial vehicles, 353 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,915 tanks and armored combat vehicles, 720 multiple launcher vehicles, 3,096 batteries of artillery and mortars and 4,043 units of special military vehicles of the Ukrainian forces have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation.
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