Moscow-Sana
The Russian Defense Ministry announced today that its armed forces killed 240 Ukrainian militants with intensive air strikes in the Kharkov and Nikolaev regions, and destroyed a number of positions of the Ukrainian forces.
"As a result of intense shelling of the temporary deployment points of the 14th and 92nd mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the suburbs of Dvorichnaya, Kondrashovka and Petrovka in the Kharkov region, more than 150 soldiers were liquidated and 12 units were destroyed," said the spokesman of the Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov. Ukrainian armored vehicles.
He added: The Russian aerospace forces launched a focused and high-precision strike near the city of Kharkov on the production and repair workshops of the armored factory, which included more than 90 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles for the Ukrainian forces.
Konashenkov explained that as a result of the unsuccessful attack by a group of Ukrainian troops in the direction of Krasnolimansky, the losses of the 66th and 93rd mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian forces amounted to more than 70 dead, four tanks, six infantry vehicles and three armored vehicles were destroyed.
According to Konashenkov, the strikes of the Russian Air Force targeted the temporary deployment points of the “Cheka” tactical group of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian forces on the island of Khortytsya, as well as the 56th mechanized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian forces in the Zaporizhia region, and more than 100 soldiers and 20 units were eliminated. of military equipment.
Konashenkov said that as a result of a high-precision strike on the equipment repair point on the territory of the “Energo Mich Complex” plant in Zaporozhye, 10 field guns were destroyed, including two American M777 guns, four Olkha rocket launchers and 15 units. of special military vehicles.
The spokesman added that the temporary deployment points of the 28th and 59th motorized infantry brigades of the Ukrainian forces, as well as foreign mercenary units in the vicinity of Nikolaev city, came under intense fire, during which more than 90 soldiers and militants were liquidated, in addition to the destruction of 18 units of Ukrainian military equipment.
He pointed out that the operational and tactical air strikes, the air operations of the army, missile and artillery forces, hit five command posts of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the towns of Beremoga in the Kharkov, Slovyansk and Bogdanovka regions of the Donetsk People's Republic, Novonikolaevka and Gulyaipoli in the Zaporozhye region, in addition to 75 artillery units, manpower centers and military equipment in 167 counties.
Konashenkov indicated that four depots of ammunition, missiles and artillery weapons were destroyed in the towns of Kobyansk in the Kharkov region, Kramatorsk in the Donetsk People's Republic, Kolometsevo in the Dnepropetrovsk region and Prilemansko in the Odessa region, near the village of Vysyuli in the Nikolaev region, a radar station of the Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system was destroyed. .
Konashenkov added that a Russian Aerospace Forces fighter plane shot down a Su-24 of the Ukrainian Air Force near the village of Gusarovka in the Kharkov region.
Konashenkov pointed out that during the last 24 hours, Russian air defense systems shot down five drones over the towns of Belogorovka, Gorlovka and Mariinka in the Donetsk People's Republic, Pavlovka in the Zaporozhye and Yevgenovka region in the Nikolaev region, and two "Tochka O" ballistic missiles were intercepted over the village of Kazachia Luban in the Nikolaev region. Kharkov and Bolshei Kuban in the Kherson region. In addition, seven HIMARS rocket launchers were dropped in the airspace of the city of Donetsk in the Donetsk People's Republic, Novo Kakhovka and Vysioloi in the outskirts of Kherson.
Konashenkov said that since the start of the special military operation, a total of 305 aircraft, 155 helicopters, 2,099 drones, 377 anti-aircraft missile systems, 5,143 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 851 multiple launcher combat vehicles, 3,433 field artillery and mortars and 5,963 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
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