Ukrainian nationalists have lost more than 330 militants during another unsuccessful attempt to advance in the Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih direction, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
“In just a day of hostilities in this direction, the enemy lost 13 tanks, 19 infantry fighting vehicles, 12 other armored combat vehicles, 11 pickup trucks with heavy machine guns and more than 330 military personnel.
Two militants have been taken prisoner,” said Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the ministry, at a daily briefing by the Russian Defense Ministry.
He noted that the Russian military managed to shoot down two Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft and one MiG-29 fighter near Andreevka (Kherson region).
The fighter was reportedly converted to use American HARM anti-radar missiles.
The Russian Aerospace Forces, using high-precision weapons, hit the temporary deployment point of the 17th tank brigade in the area of \u200b\u200bthe settlement of Bereznegovatoe, as well as hangars with weapons and military equipment of the 46th airmobile brigade near the village of Belaya Krinitsa, Nikolaev region.
More than 40 militants were liquidated and up to ten units of military equipment were destroyed.
In addition, the command post of the 56th motorized infantry brigade was destroyed east of the village of Mikhailovka (DPR).
“As a result of a high-precision strike by the Russian Aerospace Forces on the command post, 18 servicemen, including 12 officers, were eliminated, another 31 servicemen were wounded,” the Defense Ministry said.
The armed forces of the Russian Federation inflicted significant damage on the units of the 110th mechanized brigade, which occupied positions in the areas of Avdiivka and Experienced.
As a result, the nationalists refused to follow orders and fled.
The RF Armed Forces delivered concentrated fire strikes on the area of deployment of the 60th Infantry Brigade near the settlements of Dobryanka and Novovorontsovka (Kherson region).
More than 30 nationalists were liquidated and up to 15 were wounded.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery strikes against military facilities on the territory of Ukraine per day hit a platoon of multiple launch rocket systems "Alder" in the area of the settlement of Novomaryevka, Mykolaiv region, eight command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Dachnoye, Kharkiv region, Oleksandrivka , Artyomovsk and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Upper Tersa of the Zaporozhye region, Belaya Krinitsa, Velikoye Artakovo and Bashtanka of the Nikolaev region, as well as 42 artillery units, manpower and Ukrainian military equipment in 134 districts.
The Russian military managed to hit six warehouses of rocket and artillery weapons near the city of Kharkov, the settlements of Tsirkuny and Andreevka in the Kharkov region, Seversk and Soledar in the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as Dobroe in the Nikolaev region.
Not far from Voskresensk (DPR), a Ukrainian launcher of the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system was destroyed.
Russian air defense systems shot down 12 unmanned aerial vehicles and an American-made HARM anti-radar missile.
It also managed to intercept 14 shells of the American HIMARS multiple launch rocket system.
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The situation in the LDNR
Over the past day, 63 cases of firing by Ukrainian militants were recorded, according to the official Telegram channel of the DPR JCCC.
The representative office states that the nationalists used 155, 152 and 122 mm artillery, as well as 120 mm mortars in the Donetsk direction, 155 and 152 mm artillery, 120 mm mortars in Yasinovatsky, and MLRS "Grad", artillery 155, 152 in Gorlovsky and 122 mm, as well as a tank.
In total, about 340 units of various ammunition were produced, among which were those manufactured in NATO countries.
The VFU attacked the districts of 13 settlements of the republic.
Information was received about 12 casualties among the civilian population: three were killed, nine residents were injured.
Two children were among the victims.
21 residential buildings and 13 civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged in Donetsk, Staromikhailivka, Yelenovka, Makeevka and Gorlovka.
At a briefing, Colonel Eduard Basurin, official representative of the DPR UNM, said that the DPR and LPR servicemen, with the support of the Russian Armed Forces, had eliminated more than 40 militants over the past day.
In addition, it was possible to hit two positions of 120-mm mortars, two UAVs and a tank.