Moscow-Sana
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the special military operation to protect the residents of Donbass resulted in the targeting and destruction of a large number of Ukrainian military targets, including manpower centers, weapons depots and command centers, in addition to the destruction of a Ukrainian depot in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Donetsk last Sunday containing more than 100 missiles from American-made HIMARS model.
The Russian Aerospace Forces, using high-precision weapons, targeted the temporary deployment points of the 28th and 79th air assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the city of Nikolaev, killing about two hundred soldiers and destroying more than 20 units of vehicles, said the spokesman of the Ministry, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, in a press briefing today. Armored and Special.
Konashenkov stated that the intense fire bombardment by the Russian forces also resulted in the destruction of one of the companies of the 10th Mountain Offensive Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Artemovsk region.
Konashenkov stated that the bombing carried out by operational and tactical aviation, army, missile forces and artillery resulted in the destruction of four command and control centers of the 54th and 17th Mechanized Tank Brigade battalions and the 107th Regional Defense Brigade in the Novomikhailovka, Zaitsevo and Svirsk regions of the Donetsk People's Republic, in addition to the 65th mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Konashenkov stated that Russian forces also bombed centers of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment in 142 provinces, including foreign mercenaries, at a temporary deployment point on the territory of the Ukrainian Energy Machinery Factory in Kharkov, in addition to militants of the "Black Hundred" organization in the Artemovsk region of the Donetsk Republic. Eight munitions depots are in the towns of Mayorsk and Svirsk in Donetsk, Novandrivka, Mali-Cherbaky, Stpovo of the Zaporozhye region and Kolbakino in the Nikolaev region.
Konashenkov noted that as part of the anti-artillery fighting, a battery of “Uragan” multiple launch systems, an artillery battery of “Gyatsent B” howitzers in the Dzerzhinsk region and a battery of “Grad” launchers in the Pelebasovka region were hit, and an artillery platoon of artillery was destroyed. The “Masta B” howitzer and five platoons of the “D30” guns are located in their positions in the Otradovka, Dzerzhinsk, Novgorodskoye, Vodianoi, Konstantinovka, Kuragovo and Gorgevka regions of the Donetsk Republic.
Konashenkov said that the Russian air defense systems had shot down a Ukrainian Air Force Mi-8 helicopter near the village of Barmachovo in the Nikolaev region, and 10 missiles had been intercepted from the Olkha and HIMARS multiple launchers near Antonovka and Prilyvka in the Kherson region, as well as over the city of Kherson.
He pointed out that the Russian Air Force carried out a strike on an ammunition depot near the settlement of Lyubimovka in the Dnepropetrovsk region on the 24th of this month, which resulted in the destruction of more than 100 US-made HIMARS missiles and the elimination of more than 120 of his guards.
According to Konashenkov, since the beginning of the special military operation, 260 fighters, 145 helicopters, 1,622 drones, 358 anti-aircraft missiles, 4,167 tanks and armored vehicles, 763 multiple launcher vehicles, 3,203 field artillery and mortars and 4,494 special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.
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