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The Russian Ministry of Defense announced in a statement today that its artillery bombed in the direction of Kobyansk the gatherings of manpower and military equipment of the Ukrainian forces in the towns of Senkovka, Kotlyarovka, Tabayevka and Berestovoy in the Kharkov and Novosilovsky region of the Luhansk People's Republic, and that as a result of the bombing, about 100 Ukrainian soldiers, an armored personnel carrier and a combat vehicle were neutralized. Armored and six pickup trucks.
The statement read: "On the Krasno-Limansky axis, the Russian forces thwarted the counterattacks of three assault groups of the Ukrainian forces in the direction of Ploshanka and Krymenaya in the Luhansk People's Republic."
The statement added: In the vicinity of Stelmakhovka in the Luhansk People's Republic, a convoy of reserves of Ukrainian forces was exposed to Russian army fire, and as a result, five Ukrainian reconnaissance groups were destroyed in the suburbs of Chervonaya Dibrova in the Luhansk Republic and Torskoye in the Donetsk Republic, and the losses of the Ukrainian forces in this direction amounted to more than 60 Ukrainian soldiers. among the dead
In the direction of Donetsk, the main part of the town of Vodianoye in the Republic of Donetsk was captured, about 50 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, a tank, three armored fighting vehicles and four pickup trucks were destroyed.
And the statement continued: In the direction of Donetsk, the Russian forces repelled three enemy attacks and singled out more than 30 Ukrainian soldiers, four armored combat vehicles and three trucks, and thwarted an attempt by a Ukrainian mechanized infantry company to launch an attack towards Pavlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, which resulted in killing and wounding 50 Ukrainian soldiers and destroying three. combat vehicles and three pickup trucks.
The statement indicated that in the direction of southern Donetsk, four offensive groups of the Ukrainian armed forces attempted to launch a counterattack on the positions of the Russian forces in the vicinity of Pavlovka, Novomayorskoye and Neskuchnoye, and all the attacks of the Ukrainian forces were repulsed and defeated to their initial positions, in addition to that, the Russian artillery fire caused heavy losses to columns of Ukrainian forces in the towns of Novoselka and Brchestovka in the Republic of Donetsk and to prevent the transfer of Ukrainian army reserves.
The Ukrainian losses during the past 24 hours in this direction amounted to 80 Ukrainian soldiers, three armored combat vehicles and four Ukrainian special military vehicles. And the military equipment of the enemy in the 186th district. On the outskirts of the town of Kramatorsk of the Donetsk People's Republic, the headquarters of the operational-tactical group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Liman) was destroyed.
The statement stated that an ammunition depot for the 81st Brigade of the Ukrainian forces was destroyed in the city of Kramatorsk, where up to two thousand missiles of the Grad multiple rocket launcher system and more than three thousand stored artillery shells of various calibers were destroyed, and a depot of missile and artillery weapons for the Ukrainian forces was also destroyed near From the village of Kamianske, Zaporozhye region.
The statement indicated that during a full day, the Russian air defense media destroyed three Ukrainian drones over Permozhny and Tokmak in the Zaporozhye region and Ratchevka in the Kherson region, in addition to that, a missile from the US missile launcher system Himars was intercepted near the village of Kremenaya in the Lugansk People's Republic.
According to the statement, since the beginning of the Russian special military operation, 343 fighters, 183 helicopters, 2,658 marches, 396 anti-aircraft missile systems, 7,099 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 931 combat vehicles including multiple rocket launchers, 3,685 units of field artillery and mortars, as well as 7,599 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed. for Ukrainian forces.