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Today, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Russian forces eliminated dozens of Ukrainian soldiers, destroyed military vehicles of the Ukrainian forces, and shot down two fighter planes, a helicopter and three drones.
The ministry said in a statement: 15 Ukrainian soldiers were killed and two military vehicles were destroyed, following the concentrated bombing in the direction of Kobyansk on the gathering center of manpower and military equipment for the Ukrainian forces in the vicinity of Kucherovka in the Kharkov and Novoselovskoye regions of the Luhansk People's Republic.
According to the statement, in the direction of the Luhansk People's Republic, the Russian forces launched an artillery attack on the Krasno-Limansky axis, where the enemy units were concentrated in the outskirts of Sergievka, and the losses of the Ukrainian forces in this direction amounted to more than 20 dead and wounded Ukrainian soldiers, two combat armored vehicles and three pickup trucks.
In the direction of Donetsk: Russian forces continued their offensive operations, eliminating up to 50 Ukrainian soldiers in this direction, destroying two tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, and five military vehicles, as well as hitting units of Ukrainian forces near Nikolskoye, Novopol, and Novomayor Skoy in the Donetsk People's Republic.
According to the statement: two sabotage groups belonging to the Ukrainian forces were eliminated in the vicinity of Sladko in Levadin in the Zaporozhye region, up to 30 Ukrainian soldiers were liquidated, and two armored fighting vehicles and three pickup trucks were destroyed in this direction.
The statement continued: The Russian operational and tactical aviation, missile and artillery forces destroyed 57 artillery units in their bases, and targeted gathering centers of manpower and military equipment in 93 provinces. Pechy and three ammunition depots of Ukrainian forces in the suburbs of Artemovsk-Gulyaipoli in the Zaporozhye region and Ochakov in the Nikolaev region.
According to the statement, two missile attacks were carried out on the sites of the Ukrainian Grad and Smirch missile launchers in the vicinity of Berdyshi and Krasnoarmeysk during the counter-battery fighting, and combat aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down two “MiG-29” planes of the Ukrainian Air Force in the airspace of Shevchenko and Bogatyr and a helicopter of the “MiG-29” type. Mi-8” in the Dobropolje region, while Russian air defense systems shot down three drones over the towns of Volodino, Torskoye and Voikovsky, and two missiles from “Himars” missile launchers were intercepted in the Barannikova and Popasnaya regions.
According to the statement, since the beginning of the special military operation, 350 fighters, 188 helicopters, 2,694 marches, 399 anti-aircraft missile systems, 7,191 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 934 combat vehicles including rocket launchers, 3,700 units of field guns and mortars, in addition to 7,707 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
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