An attempt by the Ukrainian army to resume the offensive in the Nikolaevo-Krivoy Rog and other directions failed.
This was stated in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
“During two days of unsuccessful attacks on the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog and other directions, Ukrainian troops lost four combat aircraft: two Su-25s, one Su-24 and one MiG-29.
Three Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters were shot down in the air.
Russian troops destroyed 63 Ukrainian tanks, 59 infantry fighting vehicles, 48 other armored combat vehicles, 14 pickup trucks with heavy machine guns and more than 1.7 thousand Ukrainian servicemen,” said the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov.
He added that the militants suffered significant losses near the settlements of Arkhangelskoye, Olgino and Ternovye Pody, as a result of which the AFU retreated.
A battalion of the 57th motorized infantry brigade was also defeated.
“To release the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 12 tanks delivered to the Kyiv regime by Poland were transported across the Ingulets River.
Some of the tanks were destroyed by the powerful fire impact of the Russian troops.
Several tanks in the course of a disorderly withdrawal were blown up in their minefield.
Only five Ukrainian tanks were able to escape back deep into the territory controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” Konashenkov added.
He noted that the Russian Aerospace Forces delivered a precision strike on the positions of the 10th mountain assault brigade in the area of \u200b\u200bthe settlement of Druzhkovka (DPR) - up to 50 nationalists and nine pieces of military equipment were eliminated.
During the attack on the command post and ammunition depot of the 56th motorized infantry brigade in the area of the village of Karlovka (DPR), more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen and 12 units of special vehicles were destroyed.
Aviation, rocket troops and artillery of Russia hit ten command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Pervomaiskoye, Dobryanka, Belousovo, Lozovoe, Novovorontsovka of the Kherson region, Zelenodolsk of the Dnepropetrovsk region, Artyomovsk, Soledar, Zaitsevo and Maryinka of the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as 65 artillery units per day , manpower and Ukrainian military equipment in 153 districts.
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed three depots of rocket and artillery weapons in the areas of the villages of Ukrainka (Kharkiv region), Cherkasskoye and Ivano-Daryevka (DPR), as well as the launcher of the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system in the Dobrovolye region (Dnipropetrovsk region).
Russian air defense systems shot down seven Ukrainian UAVs, and also intercepted 57 shells of HIMARS, Alder and Uragan multiple launch rocket systems.
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Shelling of Donbass by Ukrainian formations
According to the operational data of the DPR JCCC, the nationalists fired more than 220 pieces of ammunition of various calibers.
It is noted that large-caliber artillery, mortars and Grad multiple launch rocket systems were fired at the territory of the DPR.
The nationalists used, among other things, NATO shells of 155 mm caliber.
“Over the past day, information was received about the death of two civilians in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
Ten civilians were injured of varying severity in the Petrovsky, Kirovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, including in the previously liberated settlement of Stavki, ”the statement of the JCCC says.
As of August 31, 59 cases of explosions of civilians, including two children, were already registered in the DPR in the banned PFM “Lepestok”.
One of the injured died in the hospital.
The official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR, Ivan Filiponenko, said that over the past day, during the active offensive operations of the units of the NM LPR, the enemy suffered heavy losses in manpower and military equipment.
According to him, up to 55 Ukrainian militants, five armored personnel carriers and six units of special vehicles have been eliminated.