The Ukrainian military made another unsuccessful attempt to seize the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant the night before.

As Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, official representative of the RF Ministry of Defense, noted during the briefing, Kyiv decided to take this step, despite the presence of representatives of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at the ZNPP.

“On September 2, around 23:00 Moscow time, two groups of boats and motor boats with a total number of 42 units with a landing force of over 250 people from the special operations forces and foreign mercenaries attempted to land on the coast of the Kakhovka reservoir in the Energodar and Dneprorudny area,” Konashenkov said.

According to him, four Su-30 fighters and two Ka-52 helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces attacked the enemy grouping, as a result of which 20 boats and boats were destroyed.

The rest of the landing transport turned around and left in the direction of the coast, controlled by Ukrainian troops, Konashenkov said.

Later, Russian artillery struck a section of the coast, where the remnants of the landing force came ashore.

Were involved, including 203-mm howitzers of high power "Malka".

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, during the failed provocation, the losses of the nationalists amounted to 47 people killed, including ten foreign mercenaries.

Another 23 militants were injured.

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Earlier, the administration of the Zaporozhye region reported that the Ukrainian side tried to land troops in the liberated part of the region, but the attack was repulsed.

The administration of the region also spoke about new shelling of the ZNPP territory and adjacent areas by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, over the past day, the Ukrainian military made a number of unsuccessful attempts to gain a foothold in certain areas in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction.

“During the day of hostilities in this direction, the enemy lost 23 tanks, 27 infantry fighting vehicles, 14 other armored fighting vehicles, nine pickup trucks with heavy machine guns and more than 230 military personnel,” Konashenkov said.

Along with this, Russian fighters shot down two Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft in the Kherson region, and a MiG-29 converted to use HARM anti-radar missiles in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, significant losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this direction led to an acute shortage of beds, medicines and blood supplies in the medical institutions of Nikolaev and other cities of the region.

In addition, the department said that Kyiv has stepped up efforts to identify and detain the increased number of deserters in Nikolaev.

  • The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation - about the attempt of the Ukrainian military to seize the ZNPP

Attacks on military infrastructure

Allied troops continue to strike at other positions of the Ukrainian military.

On the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic controlled by the Kyiv regime, the point of temporary deployment of the company tactical group of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Slavyansk was hit - more than a hundred military personnel and 14 pieces of equipment were destroyed.

As a result of strikes on temporary deployment points of units of the 93rd mechanized brigade in the Konstantinovka area, up to 120 militants and 11 units of military equipment were eliminated.

In total, over the past day, 53 artillery units in firing positions, manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 157 districts were hit.

Six ammunition depots were destroyed in the Mykolaiv, Zaporizhia and Kharkiv regions, as well as in the territory of the DPR not controlled by the allied forces.

The fuel storage facility of the 60th Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near Kramatorsk.

Also, near Konstantinovka, an American HIMARS multiple launch rocket launcher with an ammunition transport vehicle and up to 30 combat crew members were eliminated.

Air defense systems shot down three drones in a day, including Bayraktar TB2.

Along with this, three Tochka-U tactical missiles and 60 MLRS shells were destroyed in the air, including 44 HIMARS ammunition, 12 Alder, and four Uragan.

In total, since the beginning of the special operation in Ukraine, 286 aircraft, 151 helicopters, 1867 drones, 372 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4776 tanks and other armored vehicles, 824 MLRS systems, 3366 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 5250 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed. .