Moscow, SANA-
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that the Russian forces succeeded, during two full days of the unsuccessful attacks of the Ukrainian forces on the Nikolayvo Krivoy Rog axis and other directions, in destroying 63 Ukrainian tanks, 59 infantry fighting vehicles, 48 other armored fighting vehicles and 14 pickup trucks equipped with heavy machine guns, and eliminated more than of 1,700 Ukrainian soldiers.
Ministry spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said in a press briefing today that the Ukrainian forces lost four combat aircraft on the Nikolaevo Krivoy axis, two Su-25s, one Su-24 and another MiG-29, and three Mi-8 helicopters were shot down in the air.
The spokesman added: During the repulsion of the Ukrainian attack on the settlements of Arkhangelskoye, Olgeno and Ternovy-Bode, the Russian forces inflicted heavy losses on the Kyiv forces, as they defeated a battalion of the 57th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian forces in the town of Sukhoi Stavok. The siege of the units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces 12 tanks delivered by Poland to the Kyiv regime were transferred across the Ingolets River, some tanks were destroyed by the fire of Russian forces and many tanks were blown up during the irregular withdrawal in their minefield, while only five Ukrainian tanks managed to penetrate the mines and reach the territory controlled It is the Ukrainian forces.
"More than 50 ultra-nationalists were eliminated and nine units of military equipment were destroyed during the strikes of high-precision weapons of the Russian Air Force at the point of temporary deployment of units of the 10th Mountain Offensive Brigade near Druzkovka, Donetsk People's Republic, and concentrated fire eliminated the command post and ammunition depot of the brigade," Konashenkov said. 56 mechanized infantry on the outskirts of the village of Karlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic on more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers and destroyed 12 units of special vehicles.
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 past 24 hours, ten command centers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were bombed in the towns of Pervomaiskoye, Dobrianka, Belosovo, Lozovo, Novovorontsovka in the Kherson region, Zelenodolsk in the Dnepropetrovsk region, Artemovsevsk, and Artemovsevsk. The Donetsk People's Republic, in addition to 65 Ukrainian artillery units, manpower and military equipment in 153 provinces, indicating that three depots of missile and artillery weapons were destroyed in the outskirts of Ukrainka in the Kharkov region, Cherkasy and Ivano-Daryevka in the Donetsk People's Republic, in addition to the Buk O anti-aircraft missile launcher in Dubrovoli, in the Donetsk People's Republic. Dnepropetrovsk.
Konashenkov pointed out that the Russian air defense systems downed seven drones over Chaplinka in the Kherson region, Novokrainka in the Zaporozhye region, Borshovka, Pervomaiskoye, Kapitolovka, Izyum and Krasnoy in the Kharkov region, and 57 shells were intercepted from the Haimars, Olkha and Uragan launchers in the Velikiya regions. Kobani and Pereslav of the Kherson region, the Antonovsky bridge and the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.
Konashenkov noted that since the beginning of the special military operation, a total of 280 aircraft, 151 helicopters, 1,844 drones, 371 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,592 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 822 multiple launcher combat vehicles, 3360 field guns and mortars, as well as 5155 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
On the other hand, Konashenkov emphasized that the Kyiv regime continues to commit provocations in order to create a threat of human catastrophe at the nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye.
Konashenkov said that on August 30, the Kyiv regime continued provocations aimed at disrupting the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency mission and threatening a humanitarian catastrophe at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. The bombing of the nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye from the firing position of the Ukrainian forces in the Nikopol region on the opposite bank of the Kakhovka water tank and the enemy artillery unit in this area was suppressed by counterfire.
Konashenkov noted that the radioactive situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant remains normal and official personnel monitor the technical condition of the nuclear power plant and ensure its uninterrupted operation.
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