Moscow-Sana
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that about 240 Ukrainian nationals, 30 foreign trainers and mercenaries were eliminated, and a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter and 6 drones were shot down in separate locations.
"High-precision missiles launched from the air in the village of Dubivka in the Cherkassk region destroyed the arsenal of air weapons of the Ukrainian Air Force," said Ministry spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov in a press briefing today, noting that as a result of the successful offensive operations of the Russian forces in the direction of Donetsk, the village of Mayorsk was liberated. fully.
The spokesman explained that the enemy tried twice in the direction of Kobyansk, with the help of two tactical groups of a company backed by the nationalists, to attack units of the Russian forces in the vicinity of Novosilovskaya in the Lugansk People's Republic, and their attempts failed, pointing out that the Ukrainian units suffered heavy losses, and were pushed back to their initial positions as a result of artillery strikes and army shelling. Russian.
Konashenkov announced that the attack attempts by two tactical groups of the enemy company in the direction of the towns of Vladimirovka and Zmyevka of the Lugansk People's Republic had been thwarted, and the total enemy losses in the direction of Kobyansk during the whole day amounted to 110 soldiers, two tanks, four armored fighting vehicles and six special military vehicles.
Konashenkov stated that on the Krasnolimansky axis, the Russian forces repelled two attacks by the Ukrainian forces with a strength of up to a tactical group in the vicinity of Mikivka in the Lugansk Republic, and during artillery and air bombardment of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the enemy was stopped two kilometers from the front line of defense of the forces, and after suffering heavy losses, it was returned to its positions. Initially, as a result of concentrated fire damage, an attack by units of Ukrainian troops in the direction of the town of Chervonobovka in the Lugansk People's Republic was stopped.
Konashenkov added: “The operational and tactical aviation, army aviation, missile forces and Russian artillery bombed 62 artillery units in their positions, and centers of gathering manpower and military equipment in 183 districts. Avdiivka region of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Konashenkov noted that a radar of the Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile system (S-300) was destroyed in the outskirts of Novotroitskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic, and three US-made M777 artillery systems were destroyed near the city of Zaporozhye, in addition to the elimination of up to 30 terrorists. Instructors and foreign mercenaries who were part of the artillery crews.
Kokashnikov stated that the operational and tactical aviation of the Russian Air Force shot down with an air-to-air missile a Ukrainian Air Force helicopter near the village of Peshanoy near the village of Peschanoy, and the air defense systems destroyed six drones over Kamenka in the Kharkiv region, Novokrasnyanka, Nizhnaya Duvanka and Kozimovka. In the Lugansk People's Republic, Blagovishinka and Pavlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
Konashenkov added that 13 rocket launchers, including 10 HIMARs, were intercepted in the vicinity of Chaplinka in the Kherson region and Jitlovka in the Lugansk People's Republic, in addition to three Olkha rockets near Stekhanov in the Lugansk People's Republic and Chablinka in the Kherson region.
Konashenkov noted that since the beginning of the special military operation, 333 fighters, 176 helicopters, 2,498 drones, 388 anti-aircraft missile systems, 6,569 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 887 multiple launcher combat vehicles, 3,577 field artillery and mortars, as well as 7,202 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
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