Moscow-Sana
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that the Russian forces shot down a Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter over the Dnepropetrovsk region and seven drones in separate areas, as well as destroying many sites and warehouses of the Ukrainian forces during yesterday.
Ministry spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said in a press briefing today that as a result of the active attacks of the Allied forces, more than 50 percent of the personnel of the 14th mechanized brigade and 66th brigade of the Ukrainian forces were eliminated in the Artyomovsk and Avdiivsk directions. their sites without permission from anyone.
The spokesman added that the tactical operational aviation, army aviation, missile forces and artillery continued to bombard military installations on the territory of Ukraine, during a whole day, twenty brigade and faction command centers were targeted and eight ammunition depots were destroyed in the towns of Konstantinovka, Svirsk, Zaitsevo, Novosilka, Otretino and Vodian in the Donetsk People's Republic and Trudovoje in the suburbs.
The spokesman continued: The ammunition depot for missile and artillery weapons was destroyed in the Kharkov region, the radar of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system was destroyed in the Kramatorsk region, as well as 264 assembly areas for manpower, weapons, military and special equipment. ) and two platoons of Akatsya artillery and three platoons of howitzers (D30) in their positions in the towns of Novgorodskoye, Krasnogorkovka and Umanskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The spokesman said that a fighter plane of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter near the city of Nikopol in the Dnepropetrovsk region, and during the past 24 hours, the Russian air defense systems destroyed seven drones over Prigadyrovka, Grakovo, Soligovka, Andreevka, Babenkovo, Zavodi and Lipchanovka in the outskirts of Kharkov. Intercepting four missiles from the rocket launcher system over the city of Lyschansk.
Konashenkov indicated that since the beginning of the special military operation, 267 aircraft, 146 helicopters, 1,727 drones, 365 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,287 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 797 combat vehicles of various missile launchers, 3,290 field guns and mortars, as well as 4,820 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
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