Moscow-Sana
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that during offensive operations the town of Zaitsevo in the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic was liberated, and more than 120 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the region.
In another Donetsk region, Russian air strikes killed up to 60 Ukrainian soldiers, Russian Defense Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said in a press briefing today.
The spokesman added that on the Kobyansk axis in Kharkov, Russian forces repelled Ukrainian attack attempts and killed more than 120 Ukrainian soldiers, and Russian forces eliminated 25 Ukrainian militants and destroyed two four-wheel drive vehicles carrying heavy machine guns in another area of Kharkov.
The spokesman added that the Russian forces repelled several attempts to penetrate the front carried out by the Ukrainian forces on the Andrevo Kryvyi Rog axis in Kherson, and the Russian forces launched missile and air strikes on the positions of three Ukrainian army brigades in the Kherson and Nikolayev regions, which led to the killing of more than 280 Ukrainian soldiers.
The spokesman added that three floating crossings of the Ukrainian forces were destroyed in the Ingolets River in Kherson with high-precision missile strikes. Shells from the "Olkha" rocket launchers.
Since the start of the special military operation, 315 combat aircraft, 157 helicopters, 2,160 drones, 379 anti-aircraft missile systems, 5,412 other armored tanks, 862 rocket launchers, 3,452 pieces of field artillery and mortars, and 6,316 special military vehicles have been destroyed, the spokesman said.
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