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The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Russian army thwarted offensive attempts by Ukrainian forces on several axes, in addition to eliminating about 200 militants, destroying many Ukrainian military sites, and shooting down 3 drones.
A spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, said in a briefing today: “The Russian artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems in the areas of concentration of Ukrainian forces in the direction of Kobyansk prevented the enemy’s attempt to attack in the vicinity of Novoselovskoye in the Luhansk People’s Republic and eliminated more than 30 Ukrainian soldiers and destroyed An armored vehicle and three pickup trucks,” he added, “On the Krasnolymansk axis, the enemy, with secret forces from two tactical groups, tried to attack units of the Russian forces in the vicinity of Kolomyjikha and Belushanka in the Luhansk People’s Republic. Pointing out that "the enemy's losses amounted to more than 40 dead and wounded, and three infantry fighting vehicles and two special vehicles were destroyed."
The spokesman explained that the decisive actions of the Russian forces in the direction of Donetsk repelled the counter-attacks of the Ukrainian forces in the suburbs of Pelagorovka, Yakovlevka and Kelshiyevka, killing up to 70 Ukrainian soldiers and destroying three tanks and two armored combat vehicles.
Konashenkov stated that the enemy tried in the direction of southern Donetsk to recover the lost position in the suburbs of Novomikhaylovka and Nikolskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic, and as a result of the Russian artillery strikes and the measures of the storming groups, the units of the Ukrainian forces were pushed back to their initial positions, and the attempt of the Ukrainian forces to attack Russian positions in the vicinity of the town of Vremivka was repulsed. The enemy losses in this direction amounted to 40 dead and wounded Ukrainians, and a tank, two infantry fighting vehicles and five pickup trucks were destroyed.
Konashenkov stressed that the Russian operational and tactical aviation, army aviation, missile forces and artillery bombed five command posts of the Ukrainian forces in the suburbs of Chuguev, Kharkov region, Svirsk, Kramatorsk, Yampol and Redkodub in the Donetsk People's Republic, and the point of temporary deployment of a Nazi formation in the vicinity of Yelenokonstantinovka in the Zaporozhye region, and also targeted 56 artillery units in their outposts and assembly centers. manpower and military equipment in 158 provinces.
The spokesman added: An ammunition depot for multiple rocket launchers (HIMARS) was destroyed in the outskirts of Kuchogom in the Zaporozhye region, and two Ukrainian vehicles of the Grad multiple rocket launcher system were hit in their parking lots near the village of Liptsy in the Kharkov region.
Konashenkov stated that the air defense systems shot down three drones over the village of Chervoye Chaban in the Kherson region, in addition to that, four missiles were intercepted from the Himars multiple rocket launchers near the village of Mirnoye, on the outskirts of Kherson.
Konashenkov indicated that since the beginning of the special military operation, 333 fighters, 177 helicopters, 2,565 marches, 390 anti-aircraft missile systems, 6,825 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 904 combat vehicles including rocket launchers, 3,620 field artillery and mortars, in addition to 7,362 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
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