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The Russian Ministry of Defense announced in a statement today that the Russian forces thwarted several attempts by the Ukrainian forces to attack them, destroyed an armored combat vehicle and three pickup trucks, and eliminated a number of Ukrainian soldiers in the course of the special military operation in Donbass yesterday.
The ministry statement said..
In the direction of the Lugansk People's Republic:
Foiling an enemy attempt to attack the Russian forces in the vicinity of the town of Sovivka, and eliminating 35 Ukrainian soldiers.
Foiling the attempt of four offensive groups of the Ukrainian forces on the Krasno-Limansky axis to launch a counterattack in the suburbs of Ploshanka Golikovo and Krymenaya in Luhansk, and eliminating more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers, an infantry fighting vehicle and three armored vehicles.
In the direction of the Donetsk People's Republic:
It is more effective to occupy new lines and positions and thwart the enemy's attempts to restore the position of his forces at Severnoye and Krasnogorovka.
Enemy losses in the direction of Donetsk amounted to about 30 dead and wounded Ukrainians, an armored personnel carrier and two military vehicles.
Russian air strikes and artillery fire hit enemy reserves in the Dobrovolye area.
The destruction of two groups of sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Ukrainian forces in the suburbs of Pavlovka, while the losses of the Ukrainian forces in this direction amounted to 40 people, including dead and wounded, and four special military vehicles.
Destroying the command posts of the units of the 92nd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian forces in the vicinity of the town of Petropavlovka and the 105th Regional Defense Brigade in the town of Sinkovka in the Kharkov region, in addition to 45 artillery units of the Ukrainian forces in their bases and gatherings of manpower and military equipment in 86 districts.
An ammunition depot was destroyed near the city of Kobyansk in the Kharkov region, another depot of weapons and military equipment near the village of Tyaginka in the Kherson region, and a depot of materials and technical means for Ukrainian forces in the city of Orekhov.
US-made NTRQ37 anti-battery radar destroyed near Klishivka.
A MiG-29 fighter of the Ukrainian Air Force and a Mi-8 helicopter were shot down near the village of Nikolaevka.
11 drones were shot down over the towns of Stepnoye, Novoandrivka, Volnoye, and Nikolskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic, and Sadovo and Semenovka in the Zaporozhye region by the Russian air defense media, and two missiles from the Uragan missile launchers were intercepted in the airspace of Novogorovka in the Zaporozhye region.
Since the beginning of the Russian special military operation:
Destroying 344 fighters, 184 helicopters, 2,669 marches, 396 anti-aircraft missiles, 7,127 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 931 combat vehicles including rocket launchers, 3,685 field artillery and mortars, in addition to 7,614 units of special military vehicles.
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