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Russian Defense: Destruction of Ukrainian military warehouses, sites and equipment

2022-09-17T12:43:40.253Z


Moscow, SANA- The Russian Defense Ministry announced that the Russian forces continued to carry out their tasks in the context of the military operation


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The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Russian forces continued to carry out their tasks in the context of the special military operation to protect Donbass and were able to destroy warehouses, sites and military equipment and inflict heavy losses on Ukrainian forces in the past hours.

Ministry spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said in a press briefing today that the Ukrainian forces, in the vicinity of Pravdino in the Kherson region, with the help of two companies supported by 9 tanks and 16 armored fighting vehicles of the 28th mechanized brigade, attempted an unsuccessful attack, as the Russian forces managed within a few hours to liquidate more than 120 Ukrainian soldiers and the destruction of 7 tanks and 13 infantry fighting vehicles.

Konashenkov added that the Russian Air Force, missile and artillery forces carried out focused fire strikes on units and reserves of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The Ukrainians, the wounded, 5 tanks and 14 pieces of military equipment.

Konashenkov noted that the high-precision strikes of the Russian aerospace forces on the temporary deployment points of the ultra-nationalist formation unit Krakin, the 92nd mechanized brigade and the 81st air brigade led to the elimination of more than 50 ultra-nationalists and the destruction of more than 10 units of special military equipment and vehicles in the towns of Dvorichno, Shevchenkovo ​​and Kobyansk in Kharkov region and as a result

Intense firebombing of the combat positions of the 58th and 93rd motorized infantry battalions in the towns of Druzkovka and Artemovsk and the 53rd mechanized brigade in the town of Zaitsovo of the Donetsk People's Republic More than 230 Ukrainian soldiers were neutralized and 10 tanks and 23 armored vehicles were destroyed.

Konashenkov said that during the past 24 hours, operational and tactical air strikes, army aviation, missile forces and Russian artillery hit five command posts of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Piskunovka, Svirsk, Novokrinka and Artyomovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic and Kamishevakha in the Zaporozhye region, in addition to destroying 53 artillery units, manpower centers and equipment.

Military forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in 117 districts. Four depots of missile, artillery and ammunition were also destroyed in the Zolochev districts of the Kharkov region, Kirov in the Donetsk People's Republic, Umelnik and Veslyanka in the Zaporozhye region.

Konashenkov said that the air defense systems shot down eight drones over Pokrovskoye, Berestovoy and Kudima in the Donetsk People's Republic, Verbovoye and Bologia in the Zaporozhye region, Novovoskresenskoye and Chkalovo in the Kherson region and Komsomolskoye in the Nikolaev region, in addition to the interception of 25 Hemars and Kakhov rocket launchers in the atmosphere of Novaya.

Konashenkov indicated that since the beginning of the special military operation, a total of 293 aircraft, 155 helicopters, 1973 drones, 375 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,998 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 837 launcher combat vehicles, 3,393 field artillery and mortars, as well as 5,640 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.

With regard to the situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear plant, the Russian defense spokesman said, “The Kyiv regime continues its provocations to create a threat of human catastrophe at the plant, as during a whole day two artillery shells were recorded in the vicinity of the Volna village and the thermal power substation located near the nuclear power plant. .

He added: In total, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired 15 artillery shells from the Nikopol area in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and the artillery units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were suppressed by reciprocal fire, stressing that the radiological situation at the nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye is still normal.

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Source: sena

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