Moscow-Sana
The Russian Defense Ministry announced today that the Russian airborne forces (paratroopers) repelled an attack by a group of Ukrainian armored vehicles.
"The Ukrainian armed forces, in the form of two companies of mechanized units backed by nine tanks and 16 armored fighting vehicles, carried out an unsuccessful attempt to attack the positions of the Russian army," the RIA Novosti news agency quoted the ministry as saying in a statement, adding that the Ukrainian plan was revealed in time by Russian aerial reconnaissance with UAVs. pilot.
The ministry added that during the fighting, the Russian paratroopers managed to eliminate more than 120 soldiers from the enemy forces, as well as destroy many armored vehicles and armored cars, and seize some of them.
The ministry published videos of the operation showing a column of Ukrainian armored vehicles deployed in the field and trying to shoot while they were on the move. The footage also showed that the Ukrainian vehicles were hit by Russian shells.
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