“The grouping of Ukrainian forces in the Donbas is suffering significant losses in personnel, weapons and military equipment,” said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov. He testified that “in just three days of fighting for the liberation of the city of Svetogorsk in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the losses of Ukrainian troops amounted to more than 300 units of nationalist formations, 6 tanks, 15 armored combat vehicles of various types, 36 units of field artillery and mortars, as well as 4 Grad rocket launchers” and more than 20 cars.

And in his statement, he said: “High-precision missiles launched from the air hit an armored plant in the Kharkiv region, where tanks and other armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were being repaired and restored. He pointed out that high-precision missiles fired from the air also hit two command posts and 13 places for gathering troops and military equipment.” A battery of Avagan rocket launchers was also destroyed in Kharkiv, 4 weapons and ammunition depots in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Lugansk, in addition to a fuel depot in Kharkiv.

Konashenkov said that over the past day, Russian aviation had attacked 63 areas where troops and equipment were assembled, which led to the elimination of more than 160 elements of nationalist formations, the destruction of the command of the 14th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. , 8 tanks, 2 rocket launchers “Grad”, an artillery battery, an electronic warfare station, 13 vehicles for various purposes.