Moscow-Sana
During the last 24 hours, the Russian forces continued to bombard them from the air with long-range, high-precision weapons, targeting military command posts and energy systems in Ukraine, and all the identified sites were destroyed.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said in a press briefing today: The fire of the Russian forces concentrated in the direction of Krasno-Limansky thwarted the attempts of units of the Ukrainian forces to take control of the Jeribets River in the vicinity of the towns of Nadia, Stelmakhovka and Makeyevka in the Lugansk People's Republic and Yambolovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The spokesman indicated that the enemy forces withdrew under heavy Russian artillery fire and army air strikes to their initial positions, and more than 40 soldiers were eliminated and two armored combat vehicles and three pickup trucks were destroyed.
Konashenkov added that units of the Ukrainian forces tried in the direction of Nikolaev Krivoy Rog to penetrate the defenses of the Russian forces on the Novaya Kamenka axis Chervony Yar in the outskirts of Kherson using up to three battalions, including a tank battalion on a narrow part of the front, and the enemy managed in the vicinity of Sukhanov in the Kherson region. From the penetration of the defenses of the Russian units, and after the Russian leadership’s reserve tanks were thrown into the battle, as well as ambushes, the enemy suffered a great defeat that led to the Ukrainian units fleeing randomly, and the position was restored along the entire front line of defense.
The spokesman added: During the hostilities in this direction, more than 200 Ukrainian soldiers were liquidated, 14 tanks, 16 armored fighting vehicles and 7 special military vehicles were destroyed. Ukrainian soldier of the Russian forces.
Konashenkov added that the strikes of the operational and tactical air forces, the army, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Federation led to the destruction of three command posts of the Ukrainian forces in Dvorichnoye and Glushkovka in the Kharkov region and Lyubimovka in the Kherson region, in addition to 72 artillery units in their positions, manpower and military equipment gatherings in 179 districts, and five were targeted. Temporary deployment points of Ukrainian troops in Kramatorsk, Svirsk and Kirovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic, Novaya Kamenka and Pyatikhatki in the Kherson region.
The spokesman added that four ammunition depots were destroyed in Vygolevka in the Kharkov region, Artemovsk and Petrovsky in the Donetsk People's Republic, Matveevka in the Zaporozhye region, and in the town of Ingolets in the Dnipropetrovsk region, fuel storage facilities for Ukrainian military equipment and an ANTPQ anti-battery radar station. 36” made by the United States in the town of Berkovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, and near the village of Nikonovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, a radar for detecting low-altitude targets was destroyed near the village of Nikonorovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
Konashenkov noted that during anti-battery combat operations, the Olkha missile launcher was destroyed near the village of Liptsy in the outskirts of Kharkov, and a Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by air defense means in the Terny region of the Donetsk People's Republic, and 18 drones were shot down. In the airspace of the towns of Visoko, Sukhanov, Sadok and Tomarino of the Kherson region, Zeleny Gay, Skilki and Borchak of the Zaporozhye region, while over the town of Novomikhailovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, three missiles of the Olkha multiple launcher system were intercepted.
Konashenkov said that since the beginning of the special military operation in Donbass, 324 combat aircraft, 162 helicopters, 2,296 drones, 383 anti-aircraft missile systems, 5,926 tanks and armored combat vehicles, 874 multiple launcher vehicles, 3,511 units of field artillery and mortars, and 6,665 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
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