“Over the past day, its armed forces destroyed more than 620 Ukrainian Nazis, destroyed 24 tanks and combat vehicles, shot down 2 fighters and 16 marchers,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.

“As a result of a high-precision strike inflicted yesterday by the Russian Aerospace Forces, up to 500 servicemen of the 59th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with their weapons and equipment, were destroyed, who were in the workshops of the Okyan shipyard,” said Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the ministry, in the city of Nikolaev.

He pointed out that “Ukrainian servicemen of the 57th motorized rifle brigade in Gorsky, Podelny and Vrobovsky districts of the Lugansk People’s Republic, having lost more than 60 percent of their personnel, refused to obey the orders of the Kyiv regime and left all their positions randomly.”

“In the area of ​​​​Nikolaevka of the Donetsk People’s Republic, in connection with the threat of defeat of units of the 14th and 24th mechanized brigades, the Ukrainian command evacuated up to 30 wounded and 8 dead American and British mercenaries at night to prevent them from falling into the hands of units of the Russian Armed Forces,” Konashenkov said.

Konashenkov noted that “operational-tactical aviation and army aviation destroyed five ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Sidorovskiy, Verkhnekamenskiy districts of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Miropoly in the Sumy region, the Buk platform – the M1 anti-aircraft missile system in the Kurakhovo region, as well as in Donetsk , as well as the concentration of active forces and military equipment in 151 districts.

He added that “missile troops and artillery hit 253 places of collection of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as six ammunition depots in the areas of Lyschansk, Verkhnyaya Kamenka, Mirnaya Dolina, Loskotovka and Podlesnaya in the Luhansk Republic.

Konashenkov pointed out that “Russian artillery fired on 13 Ukrainian platoons of rocket launchers in the areas of Ostroy, Gornyak, Kudima, Dzerzhinsk, Kalinov, Zoryanoy, Dimitrov, Novologansk, Novgorodskoye and Leninskoye, as well as ten artillery platoons at firing positions in the Steppe Valley. , Nikolaev, Sigorzhinsk, Nikolaev and Nikolaev regions.