Moscow-Sana
The Russian Air Force, missile and artillery forces continued their military operations and destroyed the headquarters and warehouses of the Ukrainian forces with precision strikes, while the Kyiv forces did not carry out any offensive operations today due to the heavy losses they incurred.
"The command posts of the 63rd mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian forces in the town of Bereznegovatoy in the Nikolaev region and the assembly point of manpower and military equipment of the 46th air brigade, 57th infantry brigade and 28th mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian forces were destroyed in the towns of Sukhoya Stavka and Petrovskoye Oratgsha Platnitskoy in the suburbs of Kherson, Murakhovka and Ternovoye-Bode in the Nikolaev region, in addition to the destruction of an ammunition depot near Murakhovka in the Nikolaev region.
Konashenkov said that the Russian Air Force shot down a Su-25 fighter plane over Konstantinovka in Nikolaev region of the Ukrainian Air Force.
As a result of the heavy losses due to the concentrated fire strikes of the Russian Armed Forces on the positions of the 59th mechanized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian forces in the towns of Ukrainka, Zeleny Gay and Novogrigoryevka in the Nikolaev region of Ukraine, personnel of the Ukrainian army refused to carry out combat missions and began to retreat unauthorized to the rear areas, the spokesman added. He added that the Kyiv forces lost during the past hours in the direction of Nikolaev Krivoy Rog 2 tanks, 6 infantry fighting vehicles, 5 other armored vehicles, 7 pick-up trucks equipped with heavy machine guns and more than 190 soldiers.
The spokesman stressed that the high-precision strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the temporary deployment points of the 95th Airborne Brigade units in the Slavyansk region and the 81st Airborne Brigade in the Kramatorsk region of the Donetsk People's Republic. 120 Ukrainian soldiers were also liquidated and 15 units of armored vehicles and special cars were destroyed.
He added: "Operational and tactical aviation, the army, the Russian missile forces and artillery continue to bombard the Ukrainian military installations. During the past 24 hours, five command posts of the Ukrainian forces were destroyed, including the 72nd, 58th and 53rd mechanized infantry brigades in Dzerzhinsk, Soledar and Artemovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic, the 1st Tank Brigade in Novonikolaivka." In Zaporozhye, in addition to 51 artillery units and a gathering of manpower and military equipment for the Ukrainian forces in 167 regions, he pointed out that five depots of missile, artillery and ammunition weapons were destroyed in Trudovsky, Zaporozhye, Kurakhovo, Konstantinovka, Svirsk in the Donetsk People's Republic and Palaklia in the Kharkov region.
And the spokesman added, that a Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile launcher was destroyed near the village of Belaya Krinitsa in the Nikolaev region, and a radar station for detecting and tracking air targets was destroyed near Malomykhilovka in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
He indicated that the Russian air defense forces shot down 13 Ukrainian drones over the towns of Chervonoslovka, Oritovatoy and Alexandrovka in the Zaporozhye and Vladimirovka region, the railway station in Mondrykino, Kirillovka and Novo Andreyevka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Lyubimovka, Kreshenovka, Kiruvo, Tomino Balka in the outskirts of Khersonovka and Kharkovsky districts. "Tochka O" over Rakovki in the outskirts of Kherson, intercepting 19 rocket launchers, including 16 US "HIMARS" launchers, in the airspace of Novaya Kakhovka and Molodizhnoye in the Kherson region, Novosinovo and Groshevka in the Kharkov region, and 3 rockets from the Olkha multiple launch system over Antonovka Kherson region.
Konashenkov said that since the beginning of the special military operation, a total of 293 aircraft, 152 helicopters, 1,910 drones, 374 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,863 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 826 launcher combat vehicles, 3,369 field guns and mortars, as well as 5,387 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
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