The Russian military during a special operation in Ukraine destroyed a warehouse with M777 howitzers supplied to Kyiv by Western countries.

This was stated during a briefing on July 9 by the representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov.

According to the department, these weapons were used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine for shelling Donetsk.

“In the area of ​​​​the settlement of Chasov Yar, a hangar with American 155-mm M777 howitzers and up to 30 Ukrainian militants who were shelling residential areas of Donetsk were destroyed by a high-precision weapon of the Russian Aerospace Forces,” Konashenkov said.

Recall that the Ministry of Defense has repeatedly reported on the destruction of M777 howitzers, which the West supplies to Ukraine.

So, on May 18, the department stated that the attack on enemy positions was inflicted by rocket troops and artillery.

During the new briefing, the department also noted that as a result of a series of attacks on the positions of Ukrainian formations, the enemy suffered heavy losses in manpower.

“The enemy is suffering significant losses in all directions.

Over 75 nationalists and about 30 units of armored and automotive vehicles were destroyed as a result of fire damage to the positions of the 99th mechanized battalion of the 61st infantry chasseur brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Bereznegovatoe, Mykolaiv region, ”said Konashenkov during a briefing.

In the Zelenodolsk region of the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Russian Aerospace Forces delivered a strike with precision weapons at the temporary deployment point of the nationalist battalion "Tornado".

As a result, more than 40 militants and up to ten units of weapons and military equipment were destroyed.

After another strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces, inflicted on the positions of the artillery battalion of the 72nd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe settlement of Soledar, more than 30% of the military personnel were destroyed and most of the artillery pieces were disabled, the Russian Defense Ministry added.

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According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, due to heavy losses and desertion, the units of the 127th brigade of the defense in Kharkov are replenished at the expense of prisoners who were serving sentences in the correctional institutions of the city.

In turn, operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery struck 22 command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including the 98th battalion of the 108th territorial defense brigade in the Dnipropetrovsk region and the 16th mechanized brigade in the DPR, in a day.

Along with this, strikes were made on artillery units at firing positions in 72 districts, as well as on manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 117 districts, including two points of deployment of foreign mercenaries in Kharkov.

In addition, five ammunition depots were destroyed in the Dnipropetrovsk and Nikolaev regions, as well as on the territory of the DPR.

Along with this, the storage of fuel for military equipment in the Kirovograd region was destroyed.

Among other things, Russian Su-35S and MiG-31BM aircraft shot down two Su-25s of the Ukrainian Air Force.

Air defense systems destroyed 15 Ukrainian drones.

In the Kharkiv region and in the DPR, six shells of the Uragan multiple launch rocket system were intercepted.

In total, since the beginning of the special operation in Ukraine, 239 aircraft, 137 helicopters, 1,503 drones, 353 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,994 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 738 multiple rocket launcher combat vehicles have been destroyed.

3117 field artillery guns and mortars and 4099 units of special military vehicles were also hit.

Fortified area of ​​the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Seversk

Assistant Minister of Internal Affairs of the Lugansk People's Republic Vitaliy Kiselyov said that the allied forces liberated the village of Grigoryevka near Seversk of the Donetsk People's Republic, where the fortified area of ​​the Armed Forces of Ukraine was located.

“There was a very large fortified area, but our units took it.

Kicked out the Ukronazis.

Moreover, they were knocked out with such speed and with such losses that they don’t even write about it in the Ukrainian media, ”TASS quotes him as saying.

Kiselyov added that a missile attack was launched on a large concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Seversk region, as a result of which the Ukrainian formations suffered heavy losses.