The official representative of the Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, announced the destruction of the elite battalion of the brigade of the President of Ukraine.
“A high-precision air-based weapon on the evening of July 28, with a direct hit, destroyed a military train at the Krasnoarmeysk station of the Donetsk People's Republic, transporting an elite assault battalion of the 1st separate brigade of the President of Ukraine.
More than 140 nationalists were killed on the spot.
About 250 more militants received injuries of varying severity.
All military equipment that was in the echelon was disabled, ”Konashenkov said.
In addition, the Russian Armed Forces launched a strike with Iskander high-precision missiles at the temporary deployment point of the Kraken nationalist formation, which was equipped in the hangars of a meat processing plant in the Bogodukhov district of the Kharkiv region.
“More than 30 Nazis and ten units of military equipment were destroyed,” the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry emphasized.
Also, up to 30 servicemen, military equipment and a depot with rockets for Grad combat vehicles were destroyed during a strike with air-based high-precision weapons at the point of temporary deployment of the division of multiple launch rocket systems of the 110th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Yasnobrodovka (DPR).
In addition, near Artyomovsk, the losses of the 14th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine after being hit by high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces amounted to 50 servicemen and eight pieces of military equipment.
As a result of strikes by operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery, three depots of missile and artillery weapons and ammunition, eight command posts, as well as manpower and military equipment of the enemy in 256 districts were destroyed.
“In addition, in the area of \u200b\u200bthe settlement of Nikiforovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, a US-made counter-battery radar station AN / TPQ-36A was destroyed, and in the area of \u200b\u200bthe settlement of Novovorontsovka, Kherson region, an American counter-battery warfare station AN / TPQ-37 was destroyed," Konashenkov noted.
As part of the counter-battery fight, two American M777 howitzers were destroyed, a battery of Uragan multiple launch rocket systems and two artillery batteries of Giacint-B howitzers were hit.
Also, six platoons of the Grad MLRS, two self-propelled artillery batteries of the Gvozdika self-propelled guns, three artillery platoons of D-20 guns, and four artillery platoons of D-30 guns in firing positions were suppressed.
During the day, Russian air defense systems shot down 13 Ukrainian drones and intercepted six shells of a multiple launch rocket system and two Tochka-U ballistic missiles.
In addition, Russian Aerospace Forces fighters destroyed the MiG-29 of the Ukrainian Air Force.
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Ukrainian drones attacked a humanitarian convoy in Zaporozhye
On the night of July 30, the Ukrainian military, using UAVs equipped with improvised explosive devices, attacked cars from a humanitarian convoy that were in the parking lot for drivers to rest, said the head of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region Yevhen Balitsky.
“The vehicles were marked with identification marks of a humanitarian mission.
As a result of the terrorist attack, cars were destroyed, three multi-apartment residential buildings, a grocery store, a hotel building and a ZNPP hostel were damaged, ”he wrote in his Telegram channel.
No one was hurt in the attack, he said.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation - about the impact of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka
On July 30, the Ministry of Defense clarified the data on the dead and injured as a result of a missile attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka, where Ukrainian prisoners of war, including soldiers of the Azov national battalion, were kept.
The number of victims is 50 people, another 73 Ukrainians were taken to medical facilities with severe injuries.
“As a result of a deliberate missile strike on July 29 from the American HIMARS multiple launch rocket system on a pre-trial detention center in the area of the village of Yelenovka, the Kyiv regime killed and maimed most of the 193 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were there,” explained the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov.
He stated that Zelensky personally, his criminal regime and Washington supporting them bear all "responsibility for the bloody massacre against Ukrainians."