Moscow-Sana
The Russian Defense Ministry announced the downing of two Ukrainian Su-25 and MiG-29 fighters near the village of Andreyevka in the Kherson region, which were developed to carry American HIMARs missiles.
Ministry spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said in a media briefing today that the regime in Kyiv is still making unsuccessful attempts to gain a foothold in certain areas on the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog axis without any progress, as the aviation of the Russian Air Force, missile forces and artillery inflicted heavy losses on the units and reserves of the forces Ukrainian.
Konashenkov stated that during the past 24 hours, the combat operations on this axis resulted in the loss of the Ukrainian forces 13 tanks, 19 infantry fighting vehicles, 12 other armored fighting vehicles, 11 pickup trucks equipped with heavy machine guns and more than 330 soldiers, and two militants were captured.
Konashenkov pointed out that the Russian Aerospace Forces targeted with high-precision weapons the temporary deployment point of the 17th Tank Brigade in the village of Bereznegovatoye, in addition to the weapons and military equipment depots of the 46th Air Brigade in Belaya Krinitsa, Nikolaev region, and more than 40 soldiers were eliminated and 10 pieces of military equipment were destroyed.
Konashenkov pointed out that east of the village of Mikhalovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, the command staff of the 56th Mechanized Infantry Brigade was destroyed, and as a result of a high-precision strike by the Russian Aerospace Forces, the command post was destroyed, 18 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, including 12 officers, and 31 soldiers were wounded.
Konashenkov stated that the heavy losses forced the personnel of the 110th Mechanized Brigade units who occupied positions in the villages of Avdiivka and Obtnoyi in the Donetsk Republic to leave their positions.
According to Konashenkov, more than 30 members of the extremist Ukrainian forces were eliminated and up to 15 were wounded during the firing of concentrated fire on the combat positions of the 60th Infantry Brigade in the villages of Dobrianka and Novovorontsovka in the Kherson region.
Konashenkov stated that operational and tactical aviation, missile forces and artillery targeted a platoon of Olkha missile launcher systems in the village of Novomarevka in the Nikolaev region, 8 command posts of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the villages of Duchnoy in the Kharkov region, Alexandrovka, Artyomovsk and Konstantinovka in the Republic of Donetsk, Verkhnyaya Terska, Belaya Nikolash-Krinitsa and Vyrikhinya Nikolai Krinitsa region. To 42 artillery units, manpower and military equipment concentration points in 134 regions.
Konashenkov announced the destruction of 6 depots of missile and artillery weapons in the villages of Kharkov, Tsyrkoni and Andreevka in the Kharkov region, Svirsk and Soledar in the Donetsk People's Republic and Dobro in the Nikolaev region, in addition to the destruction of a launcher for the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system near the village of Voskresensk in the Donetsk Republic.
Konashenkov said that the Russian air defense systems had shot down 12 drones during the past 24 hours in the villages of Yakovenkovo and Borshovka in the Kharkov region, Blagodatnoye, Steele and Valerianovka in the Donetsk Republic, Nestyrianko and Kobani in the Zaporozhye region, as well as Zilioni Gay in the Kherson region.
According to Konashenkov, since the beginning of the special military operation, 283 fighters, 151 helicopters, 1,864 drones, 372 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,711 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 823 multiple launchers, 3,364 pieces of field artillery and mortars and 5,217 special military vehicles have been destroyed.
Follow Sana's news on Telegram https://t.me/SyrianArabNewsAgenc