Moscow-Sana
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that Russian forces thwarted attacks by Ukrainian forces on the axes of Kobyansk, Chernopopovka and Nikolayvo Krivoy, and shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter in Zaporozhye Province, and 4 drones in Kherson Province, and killed dozens of Ukrainian soldiers and militants.
Russian Defense Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a press briefing today: that Ukrainian forces, numbering two tactical companies reinforced with mercenaries, attacked in the direction of Kobyansk the positions of the Russian units, in the vicinity of Nikolaevka and Orlyanka, in the Kharkov region, and all the attacks were repelled, and what was liquidated. Up to 60 Ukrainian military and militants, destroying a tank, six armored fighting vehicles, and three pickup trucks.
The spokesman added: “In the direction of Krasnolimansky, a tactical battalion of the Ukrainian forces attempted to launch an attack near Chervonobovka, in the Lugansk People’s Republic, and the attack of the advancing enemy units was repelled, by the active actions of the units of the Russian forces, and as a result of concentrated fire damage, more than 120 soldiers were eliminated.” Ukraine, destroying three tanks, four armored fighting vehicles, and four pickup trucks.
The spokesman added that on the Nikolaev Krivoy Rog axis, a group of two reinforced tactical companies of the Ukrainian forces attacked the positions of the Russian forces in the direction of Malaya Alexandrovka in the Kherson region and Ternovy-Body in the Nikolaev region. During the operation, more than 60 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, six armored combat vehicles and seven special military vehicles were destroyed.
Konashenkov added that the operational and tactical air forces, army aviation, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Federation destroyed four command posts of the Ukrainian forces in the towns of Stepovaya Novosilevka, in the Kharkov region and Kolodze in the Donetsk People's Republic, and Trifonovka and Andreevka in the Kherson region, and also wounded 62 artillery units in their positions and gathering centers. Manpower and military equipment in 186 regions.
In the outskirts of the city of Pavlograd in the Dnipropetrovsk region, the spokesman said that a Ukrainian defense establishment for the production of solid rocket fuel, explosives and gunpowder for the Ukrainian forces was destroyed, and a Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down near the village of Novotroitskoye in the Zaporozhye region.
The spokesman explained that during the past 24 hours, the Russian air defense forces destroyed four marches, over the towns of Olgovka, Tyaginka and Lvovo in the Kherson region and Zeleny Gay in the Donetsk People's Republic, in addition to that, six shells from the American Hemars launcher system were dropped in the air, near The village of Antonovka, Kherson region.
Konashenkov indicated that since the beginning of the special military operation, a total of 326 combat aircraft, 163 helicopters, 2,353 drones, 383 anti-aircraft missile systems, 6,104 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 876 multiple launcher combat vehicles, 3,531 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,531 field artillery and mortars, have been destroyed. 6805 units of special military vehicles.
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