Moscow-Sana
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that its forces targeted and destroyed, during the past 24 hours, a large number of Ukrainian military targets and facilities, including command centers, weapons depots, artillery batteries and missile launchers, in addition to shooting down 13 marches.
In a press briefing today, the Ministry's spokesman, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said that during the past 24 hours, the Russian Aerospace Forces, using high-precision weapons, bombed the temporary deployment points of the units of the Nazi extremist organizations (Azov) in Nikolaevka and Aidar in the Soledar region of the Donetsk People's Republic, and more than 50 extremists were eliminated. In addition to the destruction of 12 units of military equipment.
Konashenkov noted that a precision strike on the arms and military equipment depot of the 65th mechanized brigade near the village of Doroginka in the Zaporozhye region led to the destruction of more than 15 vehicles, armored vehicles and special vehicles.
Konashenkov stated that the bombing operations carried out by tactical operational aviation, the army, missile forces and artillery against military installations on the territory of Ukraine resulted in the injury of six command posts of the Ukrainian forces, including the command of the Automated Brigade (115) in the town of Artemovsk in the Donetsk Republic, in addition to the manpower and military equipment of the Ukrainian forces in 247 counties.
According to Konashenkov, four depots of missile weapons, artillery and ammunition were also destroyed in the towns of Kurakhovo and Dashnoye in the Donetsk Republic, Belaya Krinitsa in the Kherson region and Zalman in the outskirts of Kharkov, as well as an American-made M777 howitzer was destroyed in the town of Primorskoye in the Zaporozhye region.
Konashekov pointed out that two platoons of Smerch launchers were targeted in the Vasyukovka region of the Donetsk People's Republic, Arikhov in the Zaporozhye region, and one platoon of self-propelled artillery (Gvozdika) in the Dzerzhinsk region, and two platoons of Grad launchers were destroyed in the Mayaki and Soledar regions, and two platoons of artillery (Gyatsent B) as well as three platoons of howitzers (D30) in their positions in the vicinity of Kudima, Yakovlevka and Marinka in the Donetsk Republic, Novo Alexandrovka in the Kherson region and Dobroy in the Nikolayev region.
Konashenkov said that the Russian air defense systems shot down 13 marches over the towns of Chervoni, Shakhtar, Male’ Prokhody, Kamenka, Dolginka, Sukhya Kamenka, Novosinovo and Krachmalnoy in the Kharkov region and Lyubomyrovka in the Nikolaev region. HIMARS) in Nova Kakhovka, Kherson region, in addition to two American-made anti-radar missiles in the town of Alchevsk and Stakhanov in the Lugansk People's Republic.
Konashenkov pointed out that the offensive operations of the joint allied forces in the Kharkov region on August 14, 2022, inflicted a defeat on units of the 58th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian forces in the town of Udi, noting that under the pressure of the attack, the remnants of the brigade fled from their positions and left the town, but extremists from the organization ( Kraken) the gunman opened heavy fire on 100 fleeing soldiers.
According to Konashenkov, since the beginning of the special military operation, 267 fighters, 148 helicopters, 1,770 drones, 366 anti-aircraft missiles, 4,347 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 807 launcher combat vehicles, 3,315 field artillery and mortars, and 4,958 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.
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