The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction exceeded 200 people, another 320 were injured as a result of strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces.

This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

“In the Krasnolimansky direction, as a result of air strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Yampolovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the losses of the enemy amounted to more than 200 servicemen killed and 320 wounded per day, ten tanks and 25 infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed,” said the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov.

The day before, the defense department spoke about the withdrawal of allied troops “to more favorable lines” from the settlement of Krasny Liman in connection with the threat of encirclement by Ukrainian armed formations.

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At the same time, over 100 Ukrainian servicemen and 12 pieces of military equipment were destroyed in the Kupyansk direction as a result of rocket attacks on the areas of concentration of the 92nd and 14th mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the settlements of Sinkovka and Petropavlovka in the Kharkiv region.

Along with this, the Kyiv regime attempted a simultaneous offensive on the Nikolaevsky, Andreevsky and Krivoy Rog tactical directions.

It is noted that the most active operations by forces of up to six battalions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including two tank battalions, were carried out in the direction of the settlement of Davydov Brod.

Two more reinforced battalion tactical groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine advanced on the positions of the RF Armed Forces in the settlements of Bruskinskoye and Kostromka.

“As a result of stubborn defense and massive fire strikes by Russian troops, the enemy’s offensive in this area was thwarted.

31 tanks, 78 units of special equipment and more than 240 Ukrainian servicemen were destroyed,” the representative of the defense department emphasized.

According to him, in total, over the past day, units of Russian troops destroyed 43 Ukrainian tanks, 89 units of other military equipment and over 400 Ukrainian servicemen in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction.

In addition, air strikes, missile forces and artillery hit the command and observation post of the battalion of the 46th airmobile brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the temporary deployment of the 128th mountain assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region, the temporary deployment of the 14th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kharkiv region, as well as the training base of the 9th regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine in Zaporozhye.

Also, seven depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition were destroyed in the DPR, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhia regions, and a radar for guiding the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system in the Kherson region.

At the same time, eight Ukrainian drones, 22 shells of the American HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and one Tochka-U ballistic missile were shot down by air defense means over the past 24 hours.

Konashenkov also said that as a result of a high-precision missile strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces, inflicted on September 29 on the building of the SBU administration in Dnepropetrovsk, more than 35 employees of the department, including foreign advisers, were killed, and about 40 more employees of the SBU were reported missing.

According to him, this follows from the updated data.

MANPADS "Igla" and "Verba" against aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Portable anti-aircraft missile systems "Igla" and "Verba" shot down about a third of the destroyed manned aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

On September 30, the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, General of the Army Oleg Salyukov, told the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper about this on September 30.

In turn, the S-300V (V4), Buk-MZ (M2) and Tor-M2 (M2U, M2DT) air defense systems have demonstrated their effectiveness in combating enemy drones and multiple rocket launchers.

“The results of the use of military air defense systems confirm that the greatest burden of covering troops during the operation lies with medium and short-range air defense systems,” Salyukov explained.