Attack on the point of deployment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the destruction of more than 1 thousand shells for howitzers M777

The Russian military attacked the point of temporary deployment of the artillery unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the ammunition depot.

This was during a briefing on July 10, said the representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov.

“Up to 100 personnel were destroyed, more than 1,000 artillery shells for US-made M777 howitzers and about 700 rockets for the Grad MLRS,” Konashenkov said.

The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed three command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine located on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic in a day.

Also, manpower and military equipment were destroyed in 16 districts, including the forces of the nationalist battalion "Kraken" in the Kharkov region.

As noted in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, against the backdrop of the current situation, the Ukrainian command is forcibly recruiting reservists to serve.

“In order to compensate for the large losses of personnel, the Ukrainian military command has increased the sending of untrained reservists to the front lines, who are forcibly recruited in the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions,” Konashenkov said during a briefing.

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In addition, operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery destroyed 17 command posts, four platoons of Grad multiple launch rocket systems, as well as two hangars with US-made M777 howitzers hidden in them, from which residential areas were shelled. Donetsk.

Along with this, Russian forces destroyed a platoon of multiple launch rocket systems "Uragan", a platoon of MLRS "Grad" and two artillery platoons of 152-mm howitzers "Gyatsint-B".

Su-35S fighters of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down two Su-25s and one MiG-29 of the Ukrainian Air Force in the air.

Among other things, Russian air defense systems intercepted three Ukrainian drones, three Tochka-U ballistic missiles, 20 Uragan MLRS shells and five Smerch MLRS shells in a day.

In total, since the beginning of the special operation in Ukraine, 242 aircraft, 137 helicopters, 1,506 drones, 353 anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as 3,995 tanks and other armored combat vehicles have been destroyed.

Also hit were 741 MLRS combat vehicles, 3127 field artillery pieces and mortars, 4128 units of special military vehicles.

Advance towards Seversk

LPR Ambassador Rodion Miroshnik announced the capture of Grigorovka by the allied forces.

According to him, the military is moving towards Seversk.

He noted that, according to local residents, the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Seversk are beginning to move to the suburbs to form fortified areas.

“It is already clear to everyone that Ukrainian formations in Seversk will not be able to hold back the offensive of the allied forces for a long time, because individual units are secretly leaving the city.

Mostly forcibly mobilized terrorist battalions remain in positions, ”Miroshnik wrote.

According to him, the militants are also trying to shell the already liberated areas.

Armed Forces of Ukraine and civilian infrastructure

Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced new facts of the use of civilian infrastructure by Ukrainian military formations.

Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, said that the nationalists had set up firing positions in residential buildings in Kharkov.

“In Kharkiv, on the lower and upper floors of apartment buildings (Yubileiny Avenue), Ukrainian nationalists have equipped firing positions and ammunition depots, local residents are forbidden to leave their apartments, all attempts by citizens to evacuate to safe areas are severely suppressed,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

In addition, in the Krivoy Rog district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, nationalists mined the sides of an asphalt road without notifying the local residents.

“We warn the world community and international organizations in advance about this inhuman provocation prepared by the Ukrainian authorities, as a result of which civilians may suffer, and the Kyiv regime, according to an already worked out scenario, will accuse Russian units of supposedly indiscriminate strikes and death of the civilian population,” the department noted.