Moscow-Sana
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that the Russian forces, as a result of the high-precision long-range missile strikes launched from the airspace of the village of Voronovica in the Vinnytsia region, destroyed an operational command center of the Ukrainian Air Force in that region.
The spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, said in a media briefing today that long-range and high-precision weapons of the Russian coastal forces destroyed a large ammunition depot near the village of Uman in the Cherkassy region and destroyed more than 300 missiles of the “HIMARS” launcher systems, in addition to a large amount of ammunition. The American M777 howitzer.
The spokesman added that as a result of the intense offensive actions of the Russian forces units, the 2nd mechanized battalion of the 14th Ukrainian Mechanized Brigade lost its combat capability after losing more than 340 of its personnel, either dead or wounded, while the rest of the personnel left their positions without permission.
Konashenkov added that operational-tactical aviation, army aviation, missile forces and artillery continue to bombard military installations on the territory of Ukraine, and during the whole day two command posts were bombed in the Seversk and Ocheretino regions of the Donetsk People's Republic and three ammunition depots in the Krasnogorovka regions of the Donetsk People's Republic and Govtnevi
In the Nikolaev and Oskarovka districts on the outskirts of Kherson, as well as manpower and military equipment of the Ukrainian forces in another 123 districts.
The spokesperson said that as part of the battles against the batteries, two artillery batteries of American howitzers "M777-A2" were hit near the village of Vysiuli in the Donetsk People's Republic, and two platoons of multiple launcher systems were bombed in the Lastochkino area, in addition to six artillery platoons of howitzers Also self-propelled and towed in the Razdolovka, Orlovka and Gorgevka regions of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Konashenkov said that during the last 24 hours, Russian air defense systems shot down a MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in the airspace of Turetskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic, and 17 HIMARs launchers were intercepted in the areas of Kherson, Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson and Melitopol suburbs in the region. Zaporozhye also shot down three drones over Petrovsky, the Rochenkovo railway station in the Donetsk People's Republic and Mospanovo in the Kharkov region.
Konashenkov indicated that since the beginning of the special military operation, 264 aircraft, 145 helicopters, 1,711 drones, 363 anti-aircraft missiles, 4,278 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 794 launcher combat vehicles, 3,284 field artillery and mortars, as well as 4,785 units of special military vehicles of the Ukrainian forces have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation. .
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