The Russian Armed Forces attacked the positions of three brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.
“Fire strikes on the positions of the 72nd mechanized brigade in the Zaitsev area, the 112th territorial defense brigade in the Artyomovsk area and the 101st territorial defense brigade in the Yakovlevka area of the Donetsk People’s Republic destroyed up to 100 nationalists, two tanks and 15 vehicles,” he said. the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov.
Also, when a high-precision weapon of the Russian Aerospace Forces struck in the Zaporozhye region, the command post of the 102nd Territorial Defense Brigade was hit, as a result of which up to 30 nationalists and 14 units of military equipment were eliminated.
At the same time, during a concentrated fire strike on the combat positions of the 28th mechanized brigade in the Nikolaev region, the RF Armed Forces destroyed over 50 nationalists, as well as seven units of armored and special vehicles.
In addition, as a result of air strikes, missile forces and artillery, eight command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit, as well as manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 142 districts, six depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition, a radar guidance station for the Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system were destroyed. , a US-made counter-battery radar system and a launcher for the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system.
As part of the counter-battery fight, Russian troops suppressed two platoons of Ukrainian Grad multiple launch rocket systems and D-30 howitzers, as well as three platoons of Giacint-B guns.
Russian air defense systems, in turn, shot down five Ukrainian drones and 13 multiple rocket launchers, including eight HIMARS rockets.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported the destruction of up to 100 Ukrainian nationalists in the DPR
Summary of the DPR
Over the past 24 hours, the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic was shelled 34 times by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which fired 232 units of various ammunition, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire said.
Two civilians became victims of shelling, 19 civilians were injured.
“31 housing construction in the Kievsky district of Donetsk, Gorlovka, as well as 15 civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged,” the official information summary of the DPR JCCC says.
As the RT correspondent clarified, at about 03:45 Moscow time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired ten shells of 155 mm caliber in the Budyonnovsky and Leninsky districts of Donetsk.
Also at night, as a result of the shelling of the Kievsky district of the city by the Ukrainian armed forces, an 83-year-old woman was injured.
Ukrainian ammunition depots in the LPR
Servicemen and employees of the Russian Guard found 12 caches in the Lugansk People's Republic with a large number of weapons and ammunition belonging to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and nationalist groups, the press service of the department reported.
“Only in a day, servicemen and employees of the Russian Guard, in the course of carrying out tasks to conduct reconnaissance and search activities in the Luhansk People’s Republic, discovered 12 caches with a large amount of weapons and ammunition in hidden positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and nationalist formations,” the message says.
In the caches of Ukrainian nationalists, two FAB-250 and FAB-500 aerial bombs, an Igla MANPADS, four Konkurs ATGM missiles, grenade launchers, including foreign-made RPG-75M and 177 rounds for them, two 82-mm mines were found foreign-made, several dozen rockets for the Grad MLRS and the MT-12 Rapira gun.
In addition, 390 artillery shells and ammunition for large-caliber small arms, about 50 mines, more than 100 hand grenades, over 25 thousand small arms ammunition of various calibers and 1.4 kg of explosives were found.