During a special operation, the Russian armed forces destroyed a large number of weapons and military equipment delivered from the United States and European countries for a group of Ukrainian nationalists near the Udachnoye railway station in the DPR, said Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry.

According to him, the strikes were carried out by high-precision air-launched missiles. 

Also, Russian military personnel destroyed a temporary deployment point for foreign mercenaries in the Fedorovka region and two batteries of multiple launch rocket systems in the Progress regions of the Kharkov region and Volcheyarovka of the LPR.

“Operational-tactical and army aviation hit: one command post, a radar station of the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system in the Lisichansk region, 63 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” Konashenkov said.

According to him, more than 120 nationalists, two tanks, seven field artillery pieces and 11 special vehicles were destroyed by Russian air strikes.

At the same time, Russian air defense systems shot down eight Ukrainian UAVs, and missile troops and artillery hit 247 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 13 command posts, 63 firing positions of Ukrainian artillery units, including seven installations of multiple launch rocket systems, as well as electronic warfare station.

“In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 201 aircraft, 130 helicopters, 1,196 unmanned aerial vehicles, 338 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,525 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 515 installations of multiple launch rocket systems, 1,933 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 3,583 units of special military vehicles,” the Defense Ministry said.

  • Multiple launch rocket system "Hurricane" of the unit of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, involved in a special military operation in Ukraine in the southern direction.

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In addition, the department showed captured weapons left by the retreating units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 

According to Russian military personnel, the Ukrainian military has increasingly begun to abandon the Swedish-made Javelin and NLAW American anti-tank missile systems imported by the West during the retreat due to their bulkiness.

"Switched to terror tactics"

Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region, said that the Ukrainian special services changed tactics in the region, moving from rocket attacks on the region to terrorism against the population.

“First, they fired on our region with Tochka-U missiles, then attack drones were used.

But nothing came of them.

It all shot down the air defense of the Russian army.

Later, the Tochek-U launchers were destroyed.

Therefore, now they have switched to terror tactics through explosions, weapon planting, sabotage," Rogov told RIA Novosti.

According to him, the Kyiv authorities are not satisfied that people in the liberated territories live peacefully and happily.

Because of this, Ukrainian nationalists will try to do everything they can to keep people at bay, Rogov added.

He stated that before the Day of Russia, Ukrainian nationalists sent threatening messages to local residents, demanding not to go outside.

Recall that on the eve of the building of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Melitopol, an explosive device went off - the bomb was placed in a trash can near the reception department.

According to the Investigative Committee of Russia, four people were injured in the explosion.

In addition, a substation was blown up in Berdyansk, as a result of which electricity was turned off in a number of areas of the city.

At the same time, the deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the DPR, Eduard Basurin, said that the Ukrainian military was blocked in Severodonetsk after the last bridge that connected the city with Lisichansk was blown up.

The bridge, according to him, was blown up by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on June 12.

“Those Ukrainian military units that are located there have remained forever.

They have two options: either follow the example of their colleagues and give up, or die.

They have no other option, ”RIA Novosti quotes Basurin as saying.

"168 civilians were killed"

During the 117 days of escalation, Ukrainian troops opened fire 4,289 times on the territory of the DPR, the representative office of the republic in the JCCC said.

During this period, according to the agency, 168 civilians were killed, including eight children.

The People's Militia of the DPR clarified that over the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired more than 250 shells and mines on the territory of the republic.

At the same time, the police added that its forces, together with the RF Armed Forces, liquidated 35 Ukrainian security officials and several pieces of equipment.

In turn, the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic stated that 33 Ukrainian security forces and five armored personnel carriers were destroyed in a day.