The Russian army downs two fighters and 12 Ukrainian marches

Moscow-Sana

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that its armed forces targeted and destroyed, during the past 24 hours, hundreds of Ukrainian military sites and installations, including command centers and manpower gatherings, in addition to shooting down two fighters and 12 marches.

Ministry spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov stated that about 100 militants were eliminated and 15 units of military equipment were destroyed by a missile attack on the temporary deployment point of foreign mercenaries near the city of Zaporozhye.

According to Konashenkov, about 50 militants were also eliminated and 28 units of military equipment were destroyed by intense bombardment of high-precision weapons of the Russian Air Force on the repair and restoration point of equipment of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the town of Anovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.

The focused fire strikes by Russian artillery also thwarted the attempts of the 79th Air Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to attack the village of Marinka in the Donetsk Republic, and the enemy's losses amounted to more than 50 militants.

Konashenkov stated that high-precision strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces on the permanent deployment points and communications center of the 46th Air Brigade and the 60th Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the vicinity of Bezimeno, Mirolyubovka and Uskorovka in Kherson region resulted in the killing of 30 militants and the destruction of five pieces of military equipment, noting that the losses of the troops The armed forces of Ukraine in just one day in the direction of Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog amounted to more than 110 dead and wounded, in addition to the destruction of 13 units of military equipment.

Konashenkov said: Operational-tactical aviation, army, missile forces and artillery targeted the command center of the 80th Air Attack Brigade battalion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the city of Nikolaev, the temporary deployment points of foreign mercenaries, and the 10th mountain assault brigade on the western outskirts of Zaporozhye and in the Druzkovka region of the Donetsk Republic, 33 units were also destroyed. Artillery, manpower and military equipment centers in 178 districts.

According to Konashenkov, with regard to combat operations against artillery batteries, seven artillery platoons were hit in their respective positions within the 57th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, the 10th Mountain Offensive Brigade, the 24th Mechanized Brigade, and the 102nd Regional Defense Brigade in the towns of Lyubimovka in the Dnepropetrovsk region, Markovo and Maiskoye of the Donetsk Republic, Shevchenkovo ​​in the Nikolayev region, Zatishizhya Zabnorovoli region.

The anti-aircraft missile system (USA-AKM) was also destroyed in the town of Novosilovka in the Zaporozhye region, two ammunition depots in the Antonovka and Andrevka regions of the Donetsk Republic, an air defense radar station in the vicinity of Krasnoarmeysk, in addition to the sinking of an armored boat of the Ukrainian Navy in the port area of ​​Ochakov.

Konashenkov stated that the Russian Aerospace Forces had shot down two MiG-29s of the Ukrainian Air Force over the towns of Novokrinka and Bastanka in the Yukolayev region, which had been modified to use US anti-radar missiles (HARM).

Konashenkov pointed out that during the past 24 hours, the Russian air defense systems shot down 12 drones in the airspace of Yasinovataya, Starumlinovka, Novotroitskoye, Kirillovka and Yegorovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, Mayashka in the Zaporozhye region, Davidov Brod, Malukakhovka, Charevnoy and Mikhailovka in the suburbs of Kherson, 18 of which were intercepted by 21 missiles. HIMARS) over the towns of Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson region and Valeryanovka in the Donetsk Republic, three Olkha missiles over Guselsko and Neskushnoye also in Donetsk, in addition to the shooting down of three American anti-radar missiles (HARM) near Novaya Kakhovka in the outskirts of Kherson and Svatovo in the Lugansk Republic.

Konashenkov pointed out that the Kyiv regime continued its provocations in the area of ​​the nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye, stressing that the Russian army had thwarted the attempts of the Ukrainian armed forces to bombard the territory of the plant with eight suicide marches, all of which were dropped outside those territories, explaining that the radiological situation at the plant is normal.

According to Konashenkov, since the beginning of the special military operation, 301 Ukrainian fighters, 155 helicopters, 2,074 drones, 377 anti-aircraft missile systems, 5,111 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 845 rocket launchers, 3,413 artillery and mortars, and 5,874 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.

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