Moscow-Sana
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the elimination of more than 390 members of the Ukrainian extremist nationalist groups, in addition to dozens of mercenaries, and the destruction of several command centers and positions of the Ukrainian forces during yesterday.
"The high-precision strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the framework of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine inflicted heavy losses on the enemy in the Avdiivka region, and the 37th battalion of the 56th mechanized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian forces lost its combat capability," the ministry's spokesperson, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said in a press briefing today. Just after its losses reached 60 percent of the personnel and the command of the Donetsk Operational and Tactical Group withdrew the remnants of the battalion to the rear for reorganization.
The spokesman added: More than 80 elements of the Ukrainian nationalist extremist elements were killed and more than 50 others were wounded as a result of the Russian strikes with the high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the concentration points of personnel and military equipment of the 18th battalion of the 35th Naval Brigade of the Ukrainian forces in the Belaya Krynitsa and Velikoy regions. Artakovo High-precision ground weapons also hit the temporary base for the stationing of foreign mercenaries in the city of Kharkov and killed more than 90 militants.
The spokesman added that more than 60 Ukrainian ultra-nationalist elements were killed in the Nikolaev region, and 8 units of air-strike units of the Russian Aerospace Forces were destroyed at the temporary deployment point of the 1st battalion of the 1st division of the 28th mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian forces.
As a result of the concentrated artillery strikes launched by the Russian forces on the combat positions of the 95th Airborne Intrusion Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, more than 250 ultra-nationalist Ukrainian elements were eliminated.
The spokesman said: Operational and tactical aviation, missile forces and artillery continue to bombard military facilities on Ukrainian territory, as during the past 24 hours, 5 command centers of the Ukrainian forces were targeted, including the 72nd Mechanized Brigade in the Artemevsk region and the Brigade
Air Force No. 46 in Belaya Krinitsa, Kherson region, in addition to the stationing points of personnel and military equipment in 234 districts, and 3 depots of missile, artillery and ammunition weapons were destroyed in Zvanovka and Vsyukovka regions of the Donetsk People's Republic and Bereznegovatoyeh in Nikolaev region.
The spokesman explained that the Russian air defense systems destroyed 10 Ukrainian drones during the past 24 hours in Yegorovka, Starumlinovka and Novogrodovka regions of the Donetsk People's Republic, Yakovenkovo, Lesnaya Stenka, Zelioni Gay and Kuchupivka in the Kharkov region, Bizymenoye and Charevenkoye in the Kherson region, and 3 multiple missiles were dropped from Topolmatskov and Selinovka from the Russian Federation. In the Kharkov region.
The spokesman indicated that since the beginning of the military operation for Ukraine in total, 267 planes, 148 helicopters, 1,757 drones, 366 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,340 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 800 multiple rocket launchers, 3,312 pieces of field artillery and mortars, and 4,938 special military vehicles have been destroyed.
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