During a special operation, the Russian armed forces launched a strike with high-precision, long-range sea-based Caliber missiles at a command post of Ukrainian troops in the Dnepropetrovsk region - at that time, a working meeting of the command staff of the Alexandria operational-strategic group of troops was being held there.

This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov.

As a result of the strike, more than 50 generals and officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, including the general staff, the command of the Kakhovka group of troops, air assault troops and formations operating in the Nikolaev and Zaporozhye directions.

In addition, the Caliber strike on the territory of the transformer plant in the city of Nikolaev destroyed ten 155-mm M777 howitzers and up to 20 armored fighting vehicles supplied to Kyiv by the West.

“High-precision air-launched missiles hit an echelon with personnel, weapons and military equipment of the 1st battalion of the 14th separate mechanized brigade, which arrived from the city of Vladimir-Volynsky to the combat zone in Donbass.

As a result of the strike at the train unloading site near the Gubinikha railway station in the Dnipropetrovsk region, more than 100 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 30 tanks and armored combat vehicles were destroyed," the defense ministry said.

In addition, the Russian Armed Forces inflicted a defeat on the manpower and military equipment of the 56th motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Selidovo in the DPR.

Russian servicemen destroyed up to 200 militants, including foreign mercenaries, who were part of this brigade, as well as two combat vehicles of the Grad multiple launch rocket system, ten infantry combat vehicles and armored personnel carriers.

“As part of the counter-battery fight in the Donetsk direction, seven platoons of the Grad MLRS and an artillery platoon in firing positions were defeated,” the ministry said.

At the same time, the operational-tactical and army aviation of the Russian Federation destroyed four warehouses with rocket and artillery weapons and artillery ammunition in the DPR, as well as a launcher of the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system in the LPR.

Rocket troops and artillery hit 22 command posts, 48 ​​artillery units in firing positions, manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 123 districts.

“By a strike by the Iskander operational-tactical missile system on the territory of the Kharkov Tank Repair Plant, two launchers of the Uragan multiple launch rocket system were destroyed.

The Ukrainian armed forces are suffering significant losses from the counter-battery fight, ”the Russian Defense Ministry noted.

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Russian air defense forces shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft and eight UAVs in a day.

In addition, three Tochka-U tactical missiles were intercepted in the Lugansk People's Republic and two shells of the Uragan multiple launch rocket system in the Kharkiv and Mykolaiv regions.

The department added that the units of the People's Militia of the LPR, with the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, liberated the settlement of Metelkino.

“Some units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are leaving the combat area due to low morale, lack of ammunition and lack of support,” the ministry said.

The Ministry of Defense also reported that Russian military doctors are providing assistance to residents of the LPR.

“The field hospital of the 35th Medical Detachment has been performing tasks since the first day of the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, respectively, it is equipped with everything necessary to provide surgical care, both qualified and with elements of a specialized one,” said Alexander Shadyr, head of the surgical department.

According to him, the staff has operating surgeons, traumatologists, neurosurgeons and ophthalmologists, and doctors have all the necessary equipment.

On the eve of the head of the National Center for Defense Control of Russia, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev said that the Ukrainian military continues to place weapons on the territory of educational institutions.

So, according to him, in Odessa, Ukrainian militants equipped a strong point at school No. 113, placing heavy weapons and equipment in the yard.

In addition, in Nikopol, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are deployed in one of the schools, and in Toretsk, nationalists equipped barracks and firing positions on the territories of a power plant, a boarding school, a station for young technicians, and two schools.

Also, firing positions and sniper points were equipped on the territory of a kindergarten in Kramatorsk.

In addition, Mizintsev said that in Parkhomovka, Kharkiv region, Ukrainian nationalists and foreign mercenaries were housed in the building of the House of Culture.

“On the adjacent territory there are armored vehicles, artillery pieces and MLRS,” he said.

The Ministry of Defense also added that the Ukrainian special services are preparing a staged video in Nikolaev about private houses allegedly destroyed as a result of “shelling by the Russian Armed Forces” and about “local residents left homeless.”

According to the agency, more than 40 actors participate in staged video filming, they were paid a monetary reward.

“In the future, the filmed staged materials are planned to be distributed in Ukrainian and Western media accusing the Russian armed forces of indiscriminate strikes on civilian targets,” the defense department said.

They recalled that such fakes, “cultivated by the Ukrainian factory of lies by order of Western curators,” do not contain reliable information.

Meanwhile, RT correspondent Khaled al-Jabburi showed footage from the city of Stakhanov in the LPR, which is regularly attacked by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

As a result of the latest shelling, five civilians were killed.