Russia’s Ministry of Defense announced that its forces had destroyed a shipment of weapons and military equipment belonging to a Ukrainian contingent heading to Donbass in northwestern Ukraine.
Russian Defense Spokesperson Igor Konashenkov said in a morning briefing that long-range, high-precision missiles launched from the sea destroyed weapons and military equipment of Ukraine’s 10th Mountain Assault Brigade in the area of a railway station in Zhytomyr region. The army moved from the city of Ivano-Frankivsk (west) to Donbass.
Konashinov added that during the day, the air-launched high-precision missiles hit a communication center, four command posts, 48 meeting places of the tactical operations group “North” in the Bakhmut area of Donetsk town. People’s. Republic. troops and military equipment, the Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile system, as well as six ammunition depots in the Lugansk Republic.
The spokesman added that Russian aviation had targeted 39 meeting places of Ukrainian forces and military equipment and destroyed an ammunition depot in the Krasny Lyman region of the Lugansk People’s Republic, adding that more than 230 members of Ukrainian nationalists were found as a result of air strikes. Factions were removed and 33 units of military equipment were disabled.
The other day, Russian air defense shot down three Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft in the provinces of Kherson (south) and Kharkov (northeast).
Thirteen Ukrainian drones were also shot down in Kharkov, including a Bayraktar TB-2, two Ukrainian Tochka-U ballistic missiles captured in Kherson, and eight Smerch launchers in Kharkov.
Missile and artillery units hit 73 command posts, 578 meeting places of enemy forces and military equipment, 37 artillery and mortar units at firing positions, 13 tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, 5 Grad rocket launchers and three ammunition depots were destroyed. .
Since the beginning of the special military operation, Russian forces have destroyed a total of 177 Ukrainian aircraft, 125 helicopters, 990 unmanned aerial vehicles, 319 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,226 tanks and other armored vehicles, 421 rocket launchers, 1,643 field artillery and field artillery. mortar, special military in addition to 3106 vehicles.
Source: Russian Ministry of Defense
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