The Russian military attacked the point of temporary deployment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as a result of which up to 200 nationalists were killed.

This was announced on July 20 during a briefing by the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov.

“Sea-based high-precision long-range weapons hit the temporary deployment point of the 35th Marine Brigade in the village of Dachnoye, Odessa Region, where reservists for the Armed Forces of Ukraine were trained.

More than 200 personnel were destroyed, as well as over ten units of foreign-made military equipment,” he said.

  • The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation - on the destruction of the launcher of the US-made Harpoon missile system

In addition, the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation attacked the warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as a result, up to 40 nationalists were killed.

“As a result of a strike with precision-guided weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the missile and artillery weapons depot of the 14th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the settlement of Soledar in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), 19 units of armored vehicles and up to 40 nationalists were destroyed,” Konashenkov said.

In addition to this, in the Odessa region, the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the launcher of the US-made Harpoon missile system.

During the counter-battery fight, five platoons of Grad multiple launch rocket systems of the 48th and 58th motorized infantry brigades, six artillery platoons of D-20 howitzers and nine artillery platoons of D-30 guns were hit on the territory of the DPR.

Aviation, missile troops and artillery hit seven command posts in a day, including units of the 63rd mechanized and 61st infantry brigades in the Nikolaev region, the 128th mountain assault brigade in the DPR, as well as the 92nd mechanized brigade in Kharkov areas.

In addition, eight warehouses with rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition were destroyed in the territory of the DPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, as well as two fuel depots of the 54th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR.

Russian fighters also shot down two Ukrainian aircraft: a MiG-29 in the Mykolaiv region and a Su-25 in the territory of the DPR.

During the day, air defense systems shot down four Ukrainian drones and intercepted nine shells of the Uragan multiple launch rocket system.

In total, since the beginning of the special operation in Ukraine, the Russian military has destroyed 259 aircraft, 143 helicopters, 1,572 drones and 356 anti-aircraft missile systems.

Along with this, 4,135 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 760 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3,166 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 4,410 units of special military vehicles were destroyed.

Detention of accomplices of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

During search activities and targeted checks in the settlements of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, military personnel and employees of the Russian Guard detained four accomplices of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“During the inspection of households, caches were found from the detainees, from which 18 hand grenades, five hunting rifles, nine VOG-25s and more than 2.5 thousand cartridges for small arms were seized,” the press service of the department reports.

APU left Seversk

Andrey Marochko, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR, said that the Ukrainian military had practically left Seversk, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine continued to strike at the city's civilian infrastructure.

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) are mostly on the second line of defense.

They have also now retreated a little from this settlement and continue to strike at our servicemen and the civilian infrastructure of this settlement, ”Marochko said on Channel One.

According to him, it is inexpedient for allied forces to enter Seversk; first, the safety of personnel and civilians should be ensured.

“Only after we knock out the enemy and deprive him of the opportunity to shell this settlement, only in this case it will be possible to enter and safely liberate this territory,” he concluded.