Russia denied on Monday that its high-precision ammunition was running out, in response to statements by the British Ministry of Defense, on the other hand, the Ukrainian army said it had destroyed a base of Russian forces in the Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov was quoted by the Russian Interfax news agency as saying that Russia has enough guided missiles and ammunition with high accuracy to perform all the tasks assigned to its armed forces.
The Russian denial came after British military intelligence said on Monday that it was possible that the stockpile of precision-guided munitions had been depleted due to the prolonged war in Ukraine.
A senior official in the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) said last March that Russia is running out of precision-guided munitions, which sent thousands of soldiers to Ukraine on February 24, in what it describes as a special military operation.
destroy western weapons
In the tenth week of the war, the Russian Defense Ministry said that it had destroyed, with high-precision missiles, Western weapons and military equipment at a train station in Donetsk Province, eastern Ukraine, which was supplying Ukrainian forces through this station.
In his daily briefing, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov stated that his country's forces destroyed 19 positions for the concentration of Ukrainian forces and military vehicles, adding that the Russian air defense systems had shot down 3 marches and a warplane.
In the southwestern city of Odessa, the Russian Defense Ministry said it had destroyed Ukrainian helicopters on the outskirts of the coastal city using Onyx cruise missiles, and Moscow added that it had destroyed an American-made radar system in Ukraine.
On Monday, the Ukrainian military stated that 4 high-precision missiles were launched from the Russian-controlled Crimea, and hit the Odessa region, and the Ukrainian Southern Air Command said that the air defense shot down an enemy drone over the Odessa region.
The destruction of the Bukharakiv base
On the Kharkiv front in northeastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian Air Force Command said that its forces destroyed a base for Russian forces it had established in the village of Zbavny, and the command explained that the base contained tanks, military vehicles and supply convoys.
The Ukrainian Offensive Air Force Command broadcast a video clip showing the moment the Ukrainian Air Force raided the base, destroying large parts of it.
A statement of the Ukrainian General Staff said today that the air defenses of the air and ground forces yesterday hit 10 Russian air targets, including 6 drones and 3 cruise missiles.
The General Staff added that the Ukrainian forces repelled 6 Russian attacks in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, during which 20 tanks, one artillery system, 28 units of armored combat vehicles and a special armored vehicle were destroyed.
Kyiv says that Russian forces do not stop carrying out offensive operations in order to control Donetsk and Lugansk, and to maintain the land passage between these lands and the Crimea.
Donetsk Province Governor Sergey Gaidai told the island that without the strength of the defensive lines of the Ukrainian army, Russian forces would now be roaming the streets of Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, two of the largest cities in the Donbass region still under Kyiv's control.
Develop Azovstal complex
In the southeastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, the city's mayor advisor, Petro Andreichenko, said that Russian forces had resumed their attack on the Azovstal complex after the United Nations convoy left the area following the evacuation of civilians.
The spokesman stressed that the Russian forces tried to penetrate the bridge, which was the gateway to the evacuation of civilians, but to no avail.
Yesterday, Marat Khosnolin, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, said on Telegram that he had visited the city of Mariupol.
He is the highest-ranking Russian official so far to reach the city on the Azov Sea after weeks of Russian bombardment.
Svyatoslav Balamar, deputy commander of the Ukrainian Army's "Azov Battalion", which is holed up in the Azovstal complex, said;
His forces need urgent support from the Ukrainian government, and a third party to ensure a ceasefire, the evacuation of the wounded and the recovery of the dead from the besieged industrial complex.
Regarding the evacuations, the governor of the Donetsk region said that it cannot be said that all civilians in Azovstal have been evacuated, and that efforts are continuing to evacuate all those trapped in the complex, both civilians and military.