The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed more than 50 foreign mercenaries and a large group of Ukrainian nationalists in Zaporozhye, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, said at a briefing about the progress of the special operation.

“In the city of Zaporizhzhia, up to 100 militants of the 9th Gepard Special Forces Regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine, as well as more than 50 foreign mercenaries, were destroyed by the Russian Aerospace Forces,” Konashenkov said.

Aviation also struck at the point of temporary deployment of units of the 59th motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the industrial zone of Nikolaev.

As a result, up to 50 servicemen and five pieces of equipment were liquidated.

The 81st airmobile brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also suffered heavy losses.

More than 150 people were killed as a result of a massive strike on the point of its temporary deployment in the Konstantinovka area in the uncontrolled territory of the DPR.

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In addition, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed the Bayraktar drone ground control station in the Dnipropetrovsk region and over the past day hit six command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the DPR and the Kherson region.

Fire damage was also inflicted on 62 artillery units, manpower and military equipment of the enemy in 184 regions.

“Three warehouses of ammunition and rocket and artillery weapons were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Monachinovka, Kupyansk, Kharkiv region and the Brusin railway station in the Donetsk People’s Republic,” said Igor Konashenkov.

Fighter aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down two Ukrainian MiG-29s in the Kherson region, and air defense systems intercepted seven UAVs, a Tochka-U tactical missile and 17 HIMARS MLRS shells in the Kherson and Kharkov regions.

Under fire from schools and hospitals

Meanwhile, Ukrainian troops continue shelling the territories of the DPR, LPR, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, where on September 27 the voting in the referendum on joining the Russian Federation ended.

Thus, the representative office of the LPR at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had fired at the territory of the republic three times over the past day from American HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems.

A total of 14 M31 GMLRS missiles were fired at the settlements of Rubizhne, Mostki and Starobelsk.

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The shelling injured five civilians and damaged infrastructure.

In Rubezhnoye, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a secondary school, in the building of which the polling station was located, and damaged four multi-apartment residential buildings.

In Starobelsk, a grocery store was destroyed by artillery strikes and 16 residential buildings, a power line, buildings of four agricultural enterprises and four cars were damaged.

In Mostki, a hospital was destroyed as a result of shelling.

In total, during the referendum, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 76 HIMARS MLRS missiles across the territory of the LPR, said Rodion Miroshnik, head of the republic’s representative office in the Russian Federation.

Territories of the Donetsk People's Republic are also subjected to heavy shelling.

The representative office of the DPR in the JCCC informed that over the past night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on nine settlements in the republic, firing a total of 53 shells of various calibers at them.

Donetsk, Makeevka, Chestnut, Yakovlevka, Panteleymonovka, Zaitsevo, Golmovsky, Aleksandrovka and Staromikhaylovka were shelled.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to shell settlements in the DPR on the afternoon of September 27.

The representative office of the republic in the JCCC in its Telegram channel regularly reports on new strikes by Ukrainian troops.

From 12:45 to 13:30 alone, the Ukrainian military fired at least 19 artillery shells at the Kirovsky and Leninsky districts of Donetsk, as well as at the Central City district of Horlivka.