Moscow-Sana
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that its armed forces targeted and destroyed, during the past 24 hours, a large number of Ukrainian military sites and installations, including weapons depots, tanks and armored vehicles, in addition to shooting down a Su-24 fighter and a Mi-8 helicopter.
Ministry spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said in a briefing: that the town of Kislovka was attacked by three tactical groups of the Ukrainian brigades and foreign mercenaries simultaneously from three directions, as the enemy managed to break through the defenses and reach the western outskirts of the town, but as a result of the active actions of our forces With concentrated Russian artillery fire, the attacking forces were expelled from the outskirts of Kislovka, dispersed and returned to their former positions, and the position of Russian units along the entire front line was restored.
Konashenkov stated that the Ukrainian forces made unsuccessful attempts to attack through forces of up to three companies in the directions of Tabaevka and Orlyanka in the Kharkov region and Kozimovka in the Lugansk People's Republic, and all attacks were repelled by the efforts of the Russian forces, stressing that the losses of the Ukrainian forces and mercenaries today in this direction amounted to more than 100 One soldier was killed or wounded, and four tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, and three Turkish-made Kirby armored personnel carriers were destroyed.
In the direction of Krasnolimansky, Konashenkov explained that another unsuccessful attempt by the enemy to control the crossings of the Zrepets River in the vicinity of Raigorodka, Karmazinovka, Rozovka, Mykivka and Novoliubovka in the Lugansk Republic was thwarted, and three infantry fighting vehicles and two armored vehicles were destroyed and about 60 Ukrainian soldiers were killed.
In the direction of Zaporozhye and near the town of Novudarovka, Russian units repelled an attack attempt by the Ukrainian armed forces, and seven Ukrainian soldiers were eliminated and an armored car was destroyed.
In the direction of Krivoy Rog, the enemy, according to Konashenkov, made attempts to attack with forces of up to two battalions the towns of Sukhanov, Novovoskresenskoye and Velikaya Alexandrovka in the Kherson region, but the Russian units managed to repel all the attacks and destroyed a tank, 16 armored fighting vehicles and four special military vehicles, eliminating more than 70 Ukrainian military.
Konashenkov stated that the Russian forces had defeated the advancing units of the Ukrainian armed forces in the direction of Andreevsk on the towns of Kostromka and Ichenko in the Kherson region, destroying two tanks, three armored vehicles and five pickup trucks, and liquidating more than 90 Ukrainian soldiers, pointing out that four ferries of the forces were destroyed. The Ukrainian armed forces tried to cross the Ingolets River.
According to Konashenkov, operational and tactical aviation, army, missile forces and artillery continued to bombard the command posts of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the towns of Velikaya Kostromka in the Dnepropetrovsk region and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk Republic and Lizhino in the Zaporozhye region. Zaporozhye hit the headquarters of the extremist nationalist formation “Right Sector” and the communication center of the Nazi organization “Azov” and two points of temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries.
Konashenkov stated that the Russian forces destroyed a fuel storage facility for Ukrainian military equipment in the vicinity of the city of Nikolaev and a Ukrainian "Buk-M1" anti-aircraft missile in the Shevchenkov district of Nikolaev region.
Konashenkov said that a Russian Aerospace Forces fighter plane shot down a Ukrainian Su-24 over the village of Khristoforovka in Nikolaev region, and a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter was shot down near the village of Velika Alexandrovka in the outskirts of Kherson, in addition to the downing of four Ukrainian drones over Novaya Kamenka Sadok in the Kherson region, Yavkino in the Nikolaev region and Polnoyi in the Donetsk Republic, in addition to the interception of 12 shells of American-made "HIMARS" rocket launchers near the village of Burgunka in the Kherson region and above the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.
According to Konashenkov, since the beginning of the special military operation, 319 fighters, 161 helicopters, 2,199 drones, 380 anti-aircraft missile systems, 5,677 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 868 multiple launcher vehicles, 3,465 pieces of field artillery and mortars and 6,496 units of special military vehicles were destroyed.
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