Moscow-Sana
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Russian forces had eliminated a large number of members of the Ukrainian forces, more than 400 militants, downed a Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian army in Zaporozhye and 6 drones in different regions, and destroyed two American-made anti-battery radars and two ammunition depots.
Ministry spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said in a press briefing today: “The enemy tried in the direction of Kobyansk, using the forces of two tactical battalions, to attack units of the Russian forces in the vicinity of Vladimirovka and Kozymovka in the Lugansk People’s Republic. “.
The spokesman explained that a tactical group belonging to a squadron of Ukrainian forces came under fire near the village of Bishano in the Kharkov region, noting that the total losses of the enemy during a whole day in this direction amounted to more than 160 Ukrainians killed and wounded, and six tanks and nine armored fighting vehicles were destroyed.
Konashenkov added: “On the Krasno-Limansk axis, the effective measures of the units of the Russian forces stopped the attacks of four tactical groups of the Ukrainian forces in the direction of the towns of Svatovo, Ploshanka, Makeyevka and Chernopopovka in the Lugansk People’s Republic. One, six armored combat vehicles and five special military vehicles.
Konashenkov noted that units of foreign mercenaries in the direction of south Donetsk tried to stop the advance of the Russian forces with counterattacks in the direction of the towns of Stepnoy, Vladimirovka and Pavlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, and as a result of the damage caused by artillery and aviation of the Russian army, more than 85 militants were eliminated and seven combat vehicles were destroyed. Armored vehicles and two pickup trucks.”
Konashenkov indicated that the Russian operational and tactical aviation, army, missile and artillery forces targeted four command posts of the Ukrainian forces in the vicinity of Gavrilovka and Alexandrovka in the Kherson region, Govtnevoy in the Nikolaev region and Chernyshina in the Kharkov region, in addition to 58 artillery units in their positions and gathering centers of manpower and military equipment in 236 regions.
The spokesman also indicated that two American-made anti-battery radars, NTRQ50 and NTRQ36, were destroyed in the vicinity of Lozova in the Kharkov region and Zelenaya Dolina in the Donetsk People's Republic, in addition to the destruction of an ammunition depot for the 44th Artillery Brigade of the Ukrainian forces near the city of Varvarovka in the Donetsk region. Zaporozhye, and the destruction of a depot of weapons and military equipment near the village of Bechanoy in the Kharkov region.”
Konashenkov noted that during the anti-battery fighting in the outskirts of Kruglyakovka in the Kharkov region, the M777 artillery battery of American manufacture was extinguished, while a combat aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force near the village of Yasnaya Polyana in the Zaporozhye region.
"During the last 24 hours, the Russian air defense systems shot down 6 Ukrainian drones over Novaya Tarasovka in the Kharkov region, Petrovsky Kirillovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, and Chistopole in the Zaporozhye region, and three missiles from the HIMARS and Olkha multiple launcher systems were intercepted in the airspace of Novaya Kakhovka," the spokesman said. and Novaya Mayashka in the Kherson and Volnovakha regions of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Konashenkov pointed out that since the beginning of the special military operation, a total of 333 fighters, 175 helicopters, 2492 drones, 388 anti-aircraft missile systems, 6550 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 886 combat vehicles of rocket launchers, 3,574 artillery and mortars, in addition to 7,187 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
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