The Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) destroyed a warehouse with missiles for the HIMARS MLRS in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
This was announced during a briefing on July 27 by the official representative of the department, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov.
“According to updated data, on July 24, a Russian Aerospace Forces attack on an ammunition depot near the settlement of Lyubimovka, Dnepropetrovsk region, destroyed more than 100 missiles to the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system.
Up to 120 servicemen guarding the facility, as well as foreign mercenaries and technical specialists, were liquidated, ”Konashenkov said.
As a result of other strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces, accumulations of enemy manpower and equipment were destroyed.
According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on the territory of the former plant of reinforced concrete products and the motor transport enterprise "Nikolaevstroytrans" in Nikolaev, temporary deployment points of the 28th mechanized and 79th air assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation - on the destruction of a warehouse with ammunition for the MLRS HIMARS
“Enemy losses amounted to up to 200 military personnel and more than 20 armored and special vehicles,” Konashenkov said.
In addition, one of the companies of the 10th mountain assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was completely destroyed in the Artemovsk region.
In the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), near Novomikhailovka, the 53rd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost its combat capability as a result of a high-precision weapon strike at a command post, the Russian Defense Ministry noted.
Attacks on military infrastructure
Aviation, rocket troops and artillery continue to strike at the military infrastructure of Ukraine.
So, over the past day, four command and observation posts of the battalions of the 54th mechanized and 17th tank brigades, the 107th territorial defense brigade, as well as the 65th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
Russian troops hit enemy manpower in 142 districts.
In particular, foreign mercenaries were killed at a temporary deployment point on the territory of the Ukrainian Energy Machines plant in Kharkov, as well as militants of the Black Hundred formation in the Artyomovsk region in the DPR.
Along with this, eight ammunition depots were destroyed.
In the course of counter-battery combat, the RF Armed Forces hit a Uragan MLRS battery and an artillery battery of Giatsint-B howitzers, two artillery platoons of Msta-B howitzers and five platoons of D-30 guns at firing positions located on the territory of the DPR in a day.
Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter in the Mykolaiv region and destroyed nine Ukrainian drones.
In addition, ten shells of the Alder MLRS and HIMARS were intercepted in the Kherson region.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, 260 aircraft, 145 helicopters, 1,622 drones and 358 anti-aircraft missile systems have been destroyed.
In addition, 4,167 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 763 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3,203 field artillery and mortars, and 4,494 units of special military vehicles were hit by Russian forces.
Control over Uglegorsk TPP
The officer of the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic, Andriy Marochko, confirmed that the allied forces occupied the Uglegorsk thermal power plant the day before.
“This facility is now under our full control,” Marochko said on July 27 on Channel One.
According to him, against the background of the current situation in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, there is a low level of moral and psychological state due to heavy losses.
“Many refuse to follow the orders of the command, in connection with which criminal cases are opened against them,” he said.
At the same time, Marochko noted that Ukrainian troops had strengthened their positions in the area of the settlements of Artyomovsk and Soledar in the DPR.
According to him, a battalion tactical group arrived at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reinforced with anti-tank weapons, air defense systems and artillery.