The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the prevention of an attempt by Ukrainian saboteurs to land in the Kherson region.

As the official representative of the department, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, clarified, the saboteurs moved on boats.

“In the waters of the Dnieper estuary, an attempt was discovered to advance and disembark from high-speed landing boats of the Ukrainian sabotage group into the territory of the Kherson region.

As a result of the fire damage, two landing boats of the Ukrainian Navy with saboteurs on board were destroyed, ”he said during a briefing on July 25.

In addition, the Russian military destroyed a base where ammunition for HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) and M777 howitzers were stored.

“Sea-based high-precision long-range weapons near the village of Bogdanovtsy, Khmelnytsky region, destroyed a transshipment base with US-supplied ammunition for HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems and shells for American large-caliber M777 howitzers,” Konashenkov said.

Among other things, in the village of Konstantinovka on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), more than 100 nationalists and foreign mercenaries were killed as a result of a strike by high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces at the point of temporary deployment of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Attacks on military targets

The Russian Armed Forces continue to strike with aircraft, missile forces and artillery on Ukraine's military infrastructure.

During the day, Russian troops hit six command and observation posts, including units of the 60th Infantry Brigade and the 113th Territorial Defense Brigade.

Four warehouses of missile and artillery weapons and ammunition, as well as a radar for illumination and guidance of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system, were destroyed.

During the counter-battery fight, four platoons of Grad MLRS, two artillery platoons of D-20 howitzers, three artillery platoons of Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mounts, and eight Ukrainian platoons of D-30 guns were suppressed.

During the day, Russian air defense systems shot down six Ukrainian drones and intercepted six Uragan MLRS shells.

In total, since the beginning of the special operation in Ukraine, Russian troops have destroyed 260 aircraft, 144 helicopters, 1,611 drones and 357 anti-aircraft missile systems.

Along with this, 4,161 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, as well as 763 MLRS combat vehicles, 3,198 field artillery pieces and mortars, 4,459 units of special military vehicles were destroyed.

The situation in the DNR and LNR

The allied forces of the DPR and Russia are cleaning up the Uglegorsk thermal power plant from Ukrainian troops, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the republic said.

“At present, the grouping of troops of the DPR and LPR, with the fire support of the RF Armed Forces, has liberated 255 settlements.

A cleansing of the Uglegorsk TPP is underway, ”the message published on the department’s Telegram channel says.

It is also reported that 14 settlements of the DPR were previously under shelling by the Ukrainian side.

As follows from the message, the attacks were carried out using the Grad MLRS, 203-, 155-, 152- and 122-mm cannon artillery, as well as 120-mm mortars and 80-mm unguided aircraft rockets.

According to the People's Militia of the DPR, as a result of shelling, one civilian was killed, two were injured.

13 residential buildings and five civil infrastructure facilities were damaged.

At the same time, the DPR servicemen, together with the RF Armed Forces, destroyed two installations of the BM-21 Grad MLRS and more than 30 personnel.

In the Luhansk People's Republic, in turn, they said that as a result of joint actions of the LPR military and the RF Armed Forces, the enemy had lost up to 120 personnel, two tanks, four armored personnel carriers, and three units of special vehicles over the previous day.