The Russian army destroys weapons depots, cannons and armored vehicles and shoots down 8 Ukrainian marches

Moscow-Sana

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that its forces targeted and destroyed, during the past 24 hours, hundreds of Ukrainian military sites, including command centers, weapons depots and armored vehicles, in addition to shooting down 8 marches.

The spokesman of the Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, stated in a press briefing today that the Ukrainian forces towards Nikolaev Krivoy Rog made unsuccessful intrusion attempts in the vicinity of Mirolyubovka, Malaya Sedemenukha and Belogorka in the Kherson region, and all attacks were successfully repelled. Airdrop 79 of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with high-precision weapons near the city of Nikolaev.

According to Konashenkov, the losses of the Ukrainian forces in this direction during the whole day amounted to more than 180 soldiers, in addition to the destruction of 2 tanks, 7 armored combat vehicles, 3 cannons and 10 special military vehicles.

Konashenkov stated that the Russian air force, missile and artillery forces carried out intense fire strikes on units and reserves of the Ukrainian armed forces in the vicinity of the town of Kirov in the Zaporozhye region, and the enemy's losses amounted to about 100 Ukrainian soldiers, in addition to the destruction of more than ten units of military equipment.

Konashenkov said: As a result of the attacks on the positions of the 54th and 93rd mechanized brigades and the 10th mountain assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the towns of Verkhnekamenskoye, Spornoye, Berestovoy, Artyomovsk and Zaitsevo in the Donetsk People's Republic, the enemy's losses amounted to more than 110 soldiers and 20 units of military equipment.

Konashenkov announced that high-precision strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the places of concentration of manpower and military equipment of units of the 14th mechanized brigade in the vicinity of Kochitok, Rogan, Doroshenkovo, Velikaya Babka and Chugev in the Kharkov region and the positions of the 63rd mechanized brigade in the town of Vermeyevka, as well as the 3rd separate battalion of territorial defense in Merlobiovka, Kherson region resulted in The elimination of more than 150 Ukrainian soldiers and the destruction of 17 units of armored and special military equipment.

Konashenkov added: As a result of armed confrontations in the vicinity of Zaitsovo in the Donetsk Republic, the 24th Battalion of the ultra-nationalist Aidar formation of the 53rd Mechanized Brigade lost more than half of its personnel.

Konashenkov stated that operational and tactical aviation, army, missile and artillery forces targeted the command and coordination point for missile strikes of the Primorye group in Choryno, Nikolaev region, three control points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Chervony Oskol in the Zaporozhye region and Svirsk in the Donetsk Republic, in addition to 47 artillery units, centers of manpower and military equipment of the forces The Ukrainian armed forces are located in 127 districts, including the concentration points of foreign mercenaries of the US Special Military Academy and the Kraken ultra-nationalist formation in the Kramatorsk and Nikolaevka regions of the Donetsk Republic.

Also, in the Kharkov region, an ammunition depot of the 14th mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed, containing more than 7,500 shells for Western artillery systems, and an ammunition depot for the 128th mountain assault brigade in the town of Dolenka in the Zaporozhye region.

Konashenkov noted that high-precision strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces near Kramatorsk destroyed the US-made M777 155mm howitzer, the missile guidance radar of the S-300 anti-aircraft system near the town of Dvoryzhiye and an air defense radar near Vasyukovki in the Donetsk Republic.

Konashenkov pointed out that the Russian air defense systems shot down eight drones over Malievka and Yagodno in the Kharkov region, Lebedivka in the Lugansk Republic, Tokmak and Chervono-Armeskoy in the Zaporozhye region, Vladimirovka and Antonovka in the Donetsk Republic, and eight shells were intercepted from the Hemars missile launchers for fear in the city of Kherson in the Kherson Novaya region.

According to Konashenkov, since the beginning of the special military operation, 293 fighters, 155 helicopters, 1981 drones, 375 anti-aircraft missile systems, 5,022 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 837 multiple launcher combat vehicles, 3,397 field guns and mortars, as well as 5,680 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.

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