Russian aviation destroyed up to 80 mercenaries from the Foreign Legion, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, said during a briefing.

“A high-precision strike by the Russian Aerospace Forces on the positions of units of foreign mercenaries“ Foreign Legion ”in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe settlement of Nikolaevka of the Donetsk People’s Republic destroyed up to 80 militants,” Konashenkov said.

In the Kharkiv region, Russian troops hit the temporary deployment point of the second battalion of the 92nd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

As a result, 70 Ukrainian nationalists and 14 units of military equipment were destroyed.

Thanks to the coordinated actions of aviation, artillery and missile troops, the Russian Armed Forces hit six command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR and the Kharkiv region, as well as 87 artillery units, manpower and military equipment of the enemy in 198 districts in a day.

  • Briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

The representative of the Ministry of Defense also noted that Russian troops continue to destroy enemy artillery.

During the counter-battery fight, the Russian Armed Forces suppressed a HIMARS MLRS battery in the Dnepropetrovsk region, destroyed a battery of M777 American howitzers in the Zaporozhye region, and liquidated a platoon of large-caliber Giacint guns in the DPR.

In addition, according to the Ministry of Defense, nine depots of rocket and artillery weapons were destroyed in the DPR, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporozhye and Nikolaev regions.

Konashenkov also said that over the past day, the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a MiG-29 fighter and a Su-24 bomber of the Ukrainian Air Force.

In turn, Russian air defense systems destroyed eight UAVs, intercepted 17 HIMARS MLRS shells and one HARM anti-radar missile.

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The situation in the liberated territories

According to the representative office of the LPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine inflicted a number of strikes on the settlements of the republic. 

So, as a result of the shelling of Lisichansk, the building of the water utility was damaged. 

On the night of September 29, due to shelling by Ukrainian nationalists using MLRS HIMARS, the building of the House of Culture was damaged.

In the city of Svatovo, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a residential building.

In Kremennaya, two houses were seriously damaged.

During the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine used MLRS HIMARS.

No less tense situation is developing in the DNR.

Over the past day, Ukrainian troops fired more than 150 units of various ammunition across the territory of the republic. 

In the Donetsk, Yasinovatsky and Gorlovsky directions, the militants used shells with a caliber of 155, 152 and 122 mm.

In addition, they used the AGM-88 HARM missile.

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Restless and in Zaporozhye.

The chairman of the movement “We are together with Russia” and the branch of the Russian Historical Society of the Zaporozhye region, Vladimir Rogov, said on his Telegram channel that a terrorist attack had been committed in Melitopol in the early morning.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine blew up an improvised explosive device near the school, opposite the Palladium shopping center.

As a result, the car was damaged, the driver received minor injuries.

“The victims of this sabotage could be any people passing or passing by.

The IED was stuffed with striking elements, ”Rogov emphasized.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine also attacked the Kherson region.

According to the administration of Nova Kakhovka, as a result of night shelling, Ukrainian nationalists damaged the main gas pipeline.

Emergency brigades of "Khersongaz" were forced to shut off the gas supply.

Residents of the Novokahovsky urban district and the Kakhovka district were left without gas supply.

The region's authorities also said that the missile attack had damaged power grids in Tavriysk.