As clarified by the department, 17 command posts, four platoons of MLRS were destroyed by aviation, missile forces and artillery during the day.

“In the Konstantinovka area, there are two hangars with M777 howitzers made by the United States hidden in them, from which residential areas of Donetsk were shelled.

Artillery units at firing positions in 42 districts, as well as manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 143 districts, were defeated, ”said Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the ministry.

The Russian Ministry of Defense also reported that up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers, more than 1,000 shells for M777 howitzers and about 700 shells for the Grad missile defense system were destroyed as a result of the strike on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Slavyansk.