Moscow-Sana
During the past 24 hours, Russian forces destroyed hundreds of Ukrainian military targets, including command centers and weapons depots, and shot down five drones and two US-made (HIMARS) missiles.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said in a media briefing today that the joint forces of the Russian army and the Donetsk People's Forces incurred, during their offensive operations in the Soledar region, the 14th Ukrainian Mechanized Brigade, losses exceeding two thousand personnel, while the rest of them withdrew to the rear lines.
Konashenkov explained that the high-precision strikes by the Russian Air Force in the towns of Obtnoy and Nevelskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic led to losses of more than 70 percent of the 56th mechanized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian forces, and the elements of the 23rd brigade left their combat positions without permission and left for the rear lines.
Konashenkov noted that a high-precision strike of the Russian aerospace forces on the temporary deployment point of the 28th mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian forces in the town of Novogrigoryivka in the Nikolaev region led to the death of about 100 militants and the destruction of nine units of military equipment.
Konashenkov pointed out that the losses of the 3rd Battalion of the 66th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian forces amounted to more than 50 percent of the number of its members as a result of the concentrated bombardment of its sites in the Marinka region of the Donetsk People's Republic. In the town of Zaitsevo in Donetsk.
Konashenkov reported that operational and tactical aviation, army, missile forces and artillery targeted five command posts of the Ukrainian forces, including the command of the 4th Tank Brigade in the town of Zaliman on the outskirts of Kharkiv and the 103rd regional defense brigade in the Nikolayevka region of the Donetsk Republic, as well as manpower, weapons, military and special equipment in 157 other regions.
Konashenkov said that a fuel depot for Ukrainian forces was destroyed in the Kurakhovo region of Donetsk and six ammunition depots in the Velikoy Artakovo regions of the Nikolaev region, Zaliman in the Kharkov region, Kramatorsk, Zaitsevo, Krasnogorovka and Avdiivka in Donetsk.
Konashenkov indicated that the Russian aerospace forces destroyed in the Chasov Yar region of the Donetsk Republic an anti-battery radar of the United States, as well as four platoons of the multiple launcher systems (Grad) in the towns of Serebryanka and Soledar in Donetsk, Siroko and Velika Alexandrovka in the Kherson region. And four platoons of D-30 howitzers in their positions in Georgievka, Konstantinovka, Novgorodskoye, Veseuloi, Andreivka and Dzerzhinsk in Donetsk.
Konashenkov explained that during the whole day, the Russian air defense systems shot down five marches over the towns of Yegorovka and Spartak in the Donetsk Republic, Arkhangelovka and Volkhov Yar in the outskirts of Kharkov. Olkha) over the town of Chernobyvka in the Kherson region.
According to Konashenkov, since the beginning of the special military operation, 267 fighters, 146 helicopters, 1,732 drones, 365 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,293 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 797 combat vehicles and launcher systems, 3,290 field artillery and mortars and 4,844 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
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