Moscow-Sana
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that its forces bombed and destroyed, during the past 24 hours, many Ukrainian military targets, including tanks, armored vehicles and military equipment, in addition to shooting down a Mi-8 helicopter and four drones.
The spokesman of the Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, stated in a press briefing today that the Ukrainian forces, during their failed offensive operations towards Nikolaev Krivoy Rog, especially in the towns of Mirnoy, Sukhoi Stavok, Belogorka, Proskinskoye and Olgeno in the suburbs of Kherson and Ternovia Budi in the Nikolayev region, incurred heavy losses, including the killing of 150 soldiers and the destruction of 8 tanks and 13 tanks. Fighting infantry and 11 other armored vehicles.
Konashenkov stated that high-precision strikes by Russian aviation on temporary deployment points and combat positions of units of the 53rd, 54th and 110th mechanized brigades, the 128th regional defense brigade and the 68th infantry brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the vicinity of the towns of Verkhny Kamenki, Nikolaevsk, Avdeeva, Novokalinnovo, Petrovskoye, Nosyolka, Vermivka and Seversk in the Donetsk Republic About 250 Ukrainian soldiers and more than 20 units of military equipment were destroyed.
Konashenkov said that the high-precision strikes by the Russian aerospace forces on the positions of the 75th and 86th mechanized infantry brigades in the Novosilivka and Dopropole districts of the Zaporozhye region led to the liquidation of about 70 Ukrainian soldiers and the destruction of 5 units of military equipment.
In the Kharkov region, in the vicinity of the towns of Dvorshnaya, Balaklya and Kobyansk, intensive fire strikes were directed at the manpower and military equipment of the 14th and 39th mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The losses of the Ukrainian forces amounted to 150 dead and wounded, in addition to the destruction of more than 10 units of military equipment.
Konashenkov noted that the Russian operational and tactical aviation, army, missile forces and artillery attacked combat positions and temporary deployment points of the 25th Airborne Brigade, the 9th Regiment of the National Guard, the 56th and 61st Mechanized Infantry Brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the 103rd Brigade of Regional Defense and the extremist armed formation “Kraken” in the towns of Zoryanoy and Nikolaevka Krivaya Luka and Ray Alexandrovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Kamishevakh in the Zaporozhye region and Ternevka in the Nikolaev region.
Konashenkov stated that Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian combat vehicle of the "Uragan" rocket launcher in the vicinity of Krasnyi Lyman in the Donetsk Republic.
He added that a fighter plane of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed over the Kinburn Islands chain in the Kherson region a Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force with a sabotage and reconnaissance group on board. Tochka or ballistic missile in the Alexandrovka airspace in the Kherson region.
Konashenkov pointed out that 33 multiple launch rockets, including seven "Olkha" missiles, were intercepted over the towns of Kiselivka and Burgunka in Kherson region and Donetsk city, as well as 26 other "HIMARS" missiles in the airspace of Mozikovka, Novaya Kakhovka, Vezyuloy, Rakovka, Tomarino and the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. and the Antonovsky Bridge in Kherson and Starumlinovka region of the Donetsk Republic.
According to Konashenkov, since the beginning of the special military operation, 293 fighters, 155 helicopters, 1948 drones, 374 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,921 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 835 launcher combat vehicles, 3,386 field guns and mortars, as well as 5,552 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
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