Russian Defense: 130 Ukrainian militants were eliminated and 8 drones were shot down

Moscow-Sana

The Russian Defense Ministry announced that the Russian forces bombed the temporary deployment site of the units of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian forces on the territory of an agricultural enterprise in the city of Artemovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic, and 130 soldiers were killed and eight units of Ukrainian cars and armored vehicles were destroyed.

"With a high-precision air-launched missile strike, up to 70 Ukrainian military personnel were neutralized and three Gvozdika self-propelled artillery platforms and four special vehicles were destroyed," said the spokesperson for the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov. Temporary deployment point of the howitzer battery of the 95th Single Intrusion Brigade of the Ukrainian Forces in the village of Dzerzhinsk, Donetsk People's Republic.

The spokesman added: that in the city of Kharkov, as a result of a Russian air raid on the temporary deployment points of the 3rd Ukrainian National Guard Brigade, more than 10 Nazis were killed in the territory of the Karpov grove.

Konashenkov pointed out that due to the heavy losses, the Ukrainian regime is taking measures to compensate for the shortage of personnel of the Ukrainian formations in the combat zone in Donbass, as it has taken a decision to send citizens to the front lines ahead of the scheduled date for the completion of their training at the 72nd Mechanized Brigade Training Center in the city of Belaya Tserkov, Kyiv region. The wounded who are treated in hospitals without waiting for them to complete the rehabilitation course after injuries.

According to the spokesman, tactical operational aviation, army aviation, missile forces and Russian artillery continue to bombard military installations on the territory of Ukraine. During the past 24 hours, three command centers were targeted, including a battalion of the 66th Ukrainian Mechanized Brigade in the town of Ocheretino and a battalion of the 109th Regional Defense Brigade in the town of Berestka, Republic of Donetsk People's Republic, as well as manpower and military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in another 173 regions.

Konashenkov confirmed that the "Buk-M1" anti-aircraft missile launcher was destroyed near the village of Chasov Yar in the Donetsk People's Republic, and five ammunition depots, including an equipped ammunition depot, were in one of the machine shops in the Dazhnoy region of the Donetsk People's Republic, and an arsenal was destroyed near Voznesensk in the Nikolaevsk region. 45,000 tons of ammunition that was recently supplied by NATO countries to the Ukrainian forces were stored.

Konashenkov noted that as part of the anti-battery fighting, four platoons of “Grad” launchers, two platoons of “Masta-B” batteries and a platoon of “Gyatsent-B” artillery batteries were bombed in their positions in the towns of Dzerzhinsk, Sukhaya Balka and Lastogka Krasnogorovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.

Konashenkov said that the Russian air defense systems shot down eight Ukrainian drones during the whole day over Krasnoy, Chervony Yar, Dibrovnoy and Petropavlovka in the Kharkov region, Staromykhailovka, Rivnopil and Malinovka in the Donetsk People's Republic and the city of Donetsk, and one missile of the multiple launcher system was intercepted in the town of Kamenka on the outskirts of Kharkov.

Konashenkov pointed out that since the beginning of the special military operation, a total of 263 Ukrainian warplanes, 145 helicopters, 1,701 drones, 362 anti-aircraft missiles, 4,262 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 789 launcher combat vehicles, 3,273 field artillery and mortars, and 4,766 units of military vehicles have been destroyed. Ukrainian Special Forces.

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