Near Nikolaev, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed the Gepard anti-aircraft gun, which the Ukrainian military received from Germany, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
“In the area of \u200b\u200bthe settlement of Novopavlovka, Mykolaiv region, the combat vehicle of the Gepard anti-aircraft missile and gun system delivered to the Kyiv regime by Germany was destroyed.
In addition, a launcher of the Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system was destroyed in the Kramatorsk region of the Donetsk People’s Republic,” Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, said during a briefing on August 10.
On July 25, it was reported that Kyiv received three Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns from Germany.
The representative of the defense department also said that as a result of the strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces, up to 100 nationalists and more than 20 units of military equipment were eliminated near Andreevka, where the units of the 93rd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were located.
In addition, the 56th motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost its combat capability, having lost up to 70% of its personnel.
“Most of the brigade of Ukrainian citizens mobilized to make up for the losses refused to advance to the line of contact and deserted,” the representative of the Russian Defense Ministry specified.
In addition, high-precision strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces in the village of Krasnogorovka in the Donetsk People's Republic destroyed the ammunition depot of the 54th mechanized brigade.
The losses of the Ukrainian side amounted to up to 30 military personnel, more than 6 thousand artillery shells and mines of various calibers, as well as seven vehicles.
During the day, air strikes, missile forces and artillery hit five command posts, including the 46th airmobile brigade, the Khortytsya National Guard regiment in the Zaporozhye region, the Aidar nationalist formation in the Donetsk People's Republic and the 56th motorized infantry brigade in Nikolaev.
Seven warehouses of ammunition and rocket and artillery weapons were also destroyed.
In addition, Russian Aerospace Forces fighters shot down three aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in combat: Su-25, MiG-29 and Su-27.
Air defense systems, in turn, destroyed nine drones, intercepted two Tochka-U ballistic missiles and seven HIMARS multiple rocket launchers.
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Fighting near Gorlovka
On the morning of August 10, Gorlovka Mayor Ivan Prikhodko reported clashes near the village of Zaitsevo.
Gorlovka.
There is a strong battle in the Zaitsevo area.
The enemy randomly shells the city, trying to divert the work of the artillery of the allied forces.
We ask everyone to stay in shelters and limit movement around the city as much as possible, ”he wrote in his Telegram channel.
Later, Prikhodko pointed to the progress in the actions of the allied forces: “Gorlovka.
Zaitsevo.
Upper Zhovanka.
There are successes."
Along with this, Ukrainian troops fired at the Solnechny residential area, as a result, the building of the Bermuda entertainment center was destroyed.
According to an RT correspondent, eight shells from 152 mm artillery pieces were fired at Gorlovka.
Also on the morning of August 10, armed formations of Ukraine fired at the settlements of Orlovka, Dyleevka and Makeevka.
Detention of accomplices of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region
A group of accomplices of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was detained in the Golopristansky district of the Kherson region, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kherson region reported, specifying that it included four local residents born in 1977-1984.
The detainees transported saboteurs, weapons, ammunition along the river, and also equipped caches in the forest, in which four anti-tank mines with fuses, F-1 and RGD-5 grenades, three Kalashnikov assault rifles and cartridges for them with a caliber of 5.45 mm, two Polish-made Komar grenade launcher, traumatic pistol.
“One of those detained under the guise of fishing trips on a bicycle visited the places of deployment of the military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for the subsequent transfer of information and coordinates of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the report says.
The department also announced that further measures were taken to detain persons involved in the preparation of criminal acts related to the explosions and shelling of significant control and infrastructure facilities in the Kherson region.