Russian Defense: Destroying an ammunition depot and shooting down 5 Ukrainian drones

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The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the operations of its forces during the past 24 hours resulted in the elimination of hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers, the destruction of command centers and ammunition depots, and the downing of missiles and drones belonging to the Ukrainian forces.

The ministry said in the daily statement on the progress of the Russian special military operation: that the Russian forces eliminated 60 Ukrainian soldiers in the Nikolaev region, destroyed two D-30 howitzers and four vehicles, and an ammunition depot belonging to the Mechanized Brigade No. (63) near From the village of Sengirivka.

In the Luhansk People's Republic and the Kharkov region, Russian units damaged Ukrainian forces in Novosilskoye, Dvorechnaya, Griannikovka, Masyotovka, Olshana, Liman Pervey and Sinkovka, where 70 Ukrainian soldiers were eliminated and 3 combat armored vehicles and 2 vehicles were destroyed.

In the direction of Krasnolyman, the losses of the Ukrainian forces amounted to about 140 dead and wounded, 3 armored fighting vehicles, 3 vehicles, a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer and a D20 howitzer.

In the direction of Donetsk, the losses of the Ukrainian forces amounted to more than 250 Ukrainian soldiers, two tanks and 4 armored vehicles, and combat vehicles, 5 vehicles and a (D-20) howitzer were destroyed.

The ammunition depot of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian forces was also targeted near the city of Artyomovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic, and an American-made anti-battery radar (AN-TBQ-37) was destroyed near the village of Novomarkovo.

In the directions south of Donetsk and Zaporozhye, the losses of the Ukrainian forces amounted to 95 soldiers, one tank, 3 armored vehicles, 3 pickup trucks and a howitzer (D20). An ammunition depot was also destroyed near Chervonoye in the Zaporozhye region.

Russian aviation, missile forces and artillery bombed 98 artillery units of the Ukrainian forces at firing positions and points of concentration of personnel and military equipment in 173 regions.

In the village of Brovary, Kiev region, Russian forces targeted the electronic intelligence center of the Ukrainian forces and the western center of special operations in the city of Khmelnytsky.

Russian air defense systems shot down 4 US-made HIMARS missiles, and 5 drones were destroyed in the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics and in the Kherson region.

Since the beginning of the operation, 390 Ukrainian aircraft, 211 helicopters, 3,248 drones, 406 anti-aircraft missile systems, 8,058 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,045 multiple rocket launchers, 4,228 field artillery pieces, mortars and 8,574 special military vehicles have been destroyed.

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