Moscow-Sana
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that its forces had eliminated hundreds of Ukrainian nationalist extremists and foreign mercenaries during operations it carried out in Ukraine during the past hours.
The spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, said that the strikes of the Russian Air Force and artillery units destroyed the temporary deployment site of the 46th Air Transport Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and eliminated more than 400 elements of nationalist extremists near the town of Belogorka in the suburbs of Kherson, noting that as a result of For strikes with high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the combat positions of the 105th battalion of the 63rd mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the towns of Andreivka, Lozovo and Dolgovo of Kherson more than 70 nationalist extremists were killed and about 150 others were wounded.
Konashenkov explained that near the village of Vivodovo in the Dnepropetrovsk region, as a result of a high-precision strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the stronghold of the formation of the "Foreign Legion", more than 80 foreign mercenaries were eliminated and 11 units of special equipment were destroyed. Soldiers of the 59th Mechanized Infantry, 61st Infantry Brigade, and the 35th Marine Brigade refused to follow orders to advance, abandoned their positions and fled.
Konashenkov added that operational-tactical aviation, army aviation, missile and artillery forces continued to bombard military installations on the territory of Ukraine, and during the past 24 hours, the command center of the 10th Mountain Attack Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Druzkovka region of the Donetsk People's Republic was targeted, in addition to the positions of manpower and military equipment of these forces. In 135 districts, he indicated that two depots of missile, artillery and ammunition weapons were destroyed in the towns of Trudovoye and Soledar in the Donetsk People's Republic.
In addition, in the city of Zaporozhye, a fuel depot of the Ukrainian armed forces with a capacity of more than 50 thousand tons of diesel fuel for military equipment of the Dnepr operational group of Ukrainian forces was destroyed, while a Ukrainian platoon of missile systems (Olkha) and American launchers (HIMARS) were destroyed, Konashenkov noted. ) near the village of Petigorskoye on the outskirts of Kharkov.
Konashenkov said that five platoons of Grad launchers, three self-propelled artillery platoons, "Gvozdika", one platoon of "Gyatsent-B" artillery and four platoons of "D30" howitzers were targeted in their positions in the towns of Avdiivka, Solidar, Seversk, Serebryanka, Artyumovsk, Novgorovskaya and Vigorevskya People's Republic of Donetsk. and Kalinovka and Dobroi in the Nikolaevsk region.
Konashenkov added that the Russian Air Force destroyed two Su-25 aircraft belonging to the Ukrainian Air Force, where one of the two aircraft was destroyed in an air battle by tactical operational aviation over Solntsovo in the Kirovograd region, and the other aircraft was shot down by air defense systems over Radgospnoy in the Kherson region, while it was shot down. Russian air defense systems in the air are eight unmanned aerial vehicles over Dibrovnoy, Soligovka, Dolzhenko, Preship, Perak and Volokhov Yar in the Kharkov region and Bologya in the Zaporozhye region, in addition to intercepting 26 multiple launch rockets.
Konashenkov said that since the beginning of the special military operation, a total of 263 aircraft, 145 helicopters, 1,693 drones, 361 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,259 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 789 rocket launchers, 3270 units of field artillery and mortars, in addition to 4739 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed. .
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