The Russian Aerospace Forces attacked the Mirgorod military airfield, said the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov.
Su-27 and Su-24 aircraft were destroyed.
Two more Su-27s and one Su-24 were critically damaged.
Eliminated up to 30 militants.
A blow was also struck at the Dnepr military airfield, as a result of which three aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force were destroyed.
The Russian Aerospace Forces hit the command post of the Kakhovka group with a precision strike, eliminating 64 nationalists and seven pieces of military equipment.
“As a result of a direct hit by an Iskander missile on a military echelon at the Chaplino railway station in the Dnipropetrovsk region, more than 200 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reserve and ten pieces of military equipment were destroyed on their way to the combat zone in Donbass,” the Defense Ministry said.
The Russian Aerospace Forces attacked the shops of the Iskra plant, where radar stations were being repaired.
The buildings of the Migremont aircraft repair plant were also destroyed.
During the day, seven command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, four ammunition depots, a fuel storage facility, as well as manpower and Ukrainian military equipment in 149 districts were hit.
The Ministry of Defense said that two platoons of Grad multiple launch rocket systems and three platoons of D-30 howitzers were suppressed during the counter-battery fight.
Over the past day, Russian air defense systems shot down five UAVs and intercepted 19 HIMARS rocket launchers.
In addition, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to fire at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
During the day, Ukrainian artillery struck seven times from large-caliber guns.
Russian artillery was able to suppress enemy firepower.
Brief of the Ministry of Defense
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The situation in the DNR and LNR
Ukrainian nationalists shelled the settlement of Horlivka in the Donetsk People's Republic, the press service of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) wrote on its Telegram channel.
It is reported that the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired seven NATO shells of 155 mm caliber at 06:10 Moscow time from the village of Ozaryanovka.
Earlier, the same settlement was attacked from Dyleevka, Nikitovsky district.
VFU used six shells of the same type.
On the evening of August 24, Ukrainian militants attacked a water tower in Novomikhailovka (DPR), Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation, said.
“The militants of the Ukrainian armed formations mined the facilities of the water station, which they plan to blow up and accuse Russian troops of indiscriminate strikes on vital infrastructure facilities, followed by widespread coverage in Ukrainian and Western media,” Mizintsev said.
The colonel-general noted that the Ukrainian troops deployed long-range artillery, as well as multiple launch rocket systems.
Mizintsev said that if the station is blown up, more than 12.5 thousand people from 11 settlements will be left without water supply.
The JCCC announced that, according to updated data, four people were killed on the territory of the DPR over the past 24 hours, 14 civilians were injured.
In addition, the JCCC said that over the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine opened fire 38 times.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy used MLRS HIMARS, MLRS "Hurricane", artillery 155, 152 and 122 mm, mortar 120 mm, in Yasinovatsky - artillery 155 and 152 mm, in Gorlovsky - MLRS "Grad", artillery 155, 152 and 122 mm, mortar 120 mm, NAR 80 mm (without the use of aviation).
In total, VFU used 243 units of various ammunition.
33 buildings were damaged in the Kirovsky, Petrovsky, Kievsky, Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Makeevka, Gorlovka, as well as nine civilian infrastructure facilities.
According to the operational data of the DPR JCCC, on August 25, a woman died, two children were injured.
As a result of the shelling of the Gorlovka settlement, two houses, two 110 kilovolt lines, six 35 kilovolt lines were damaged, 35,116 subscribers were left without power supply.
The projectile also damaged the tram and trolleybus department of the Gorlovka city administration.
Victory of the Luhansk scouts
Under Soledar, LPR intelligence destroyed a pillbox of Ukrainian nationalists, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
“We observe the enemy in the amount of ten people.
We will work with artillery, ”the scout says on the published video.
To adjust the artillery fire, the military used civilian quadcopter drones - the so-called mavics.
After a successful shelling, the group redeployed and attacked the pillbox with anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs).
“A maximum of two or three shots are fired from an ATGM from one position, then we change positions, as they can cover with a mortar, artillery, Grad, a sniper can work.
We hit lightly armored, armored vehicles of the enemy, jeeps, tanks, pillboxes, ”one of the fighters commented on the actions of the reconnaissance group.