The Russian Defense Ministry said that the Russian military destroyed about 160 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction.

This was announced during a briefing on October 17 by the official representative of the department, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov.

“In the Kupyansk direction, Russian artillery fire and army aviation strikes defeated the manpower and military equipment of the 14th and 92nd mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” he said.

According to Konashenkov, the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated in the area of ​​​​several settlements in the Kharkov region.

About 160 Ukrainian servicemen, four armored combat vehicles, two artillery pieces, a pickup truck and two cars were destroyed.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation also stated that in the Lisichansk direction, the battalion tactical group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made an unsuccessful attempt to attack in the direction of one of the settlements of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).

It is reported that the active units of the Russian troops pushed the Armed Forces of Ukraine back to their starting lines.

In the process, more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, six tanks, two armored combat vehicles and four pickup trucks were destroyed.

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Russian troops also prevented an attempt by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to break through the defenses in the Kherson region.

We are talking about the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction.

More than 100 Ukrainian servicemen, 13 armored combat vehicles and eight vehicles were destroyed.

During the day, air strikes, missile troops and artillery hit two command posts in the Kharkiv region and the DPR, 39 artillery units in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 127 districts.

Along with this, six warehouses were destroyed in the Kharkov, Nikolaev and Kherson regions, as well as on the territory of the DPR.

In the area of ​​Nikolaev, a fuel storage facility for military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed.

In addition, a repair base for weapons and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed in the Nikolaev region.

During the counter-battery fight, the Ukrainian battery of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) Smerch was defeated, as well as the battery of American M777 howitzers in the Kharkiv region.

Air defense systems destroyed nine drones in the Kharkiv and Kherson regions, as well as on the territory of the DPR and LPR.

21 shells of MLRS HIMARS and Alder were shot down in the air.

In addition, two American HARM anti-radar missiles were intercepted.

In addition, during the day, the RF Armed Forces continued to strike with long-range air and sea-based high-precision weapons at military command and control facilities and the energy system of Ukraine.

As noted in the department, all designated objects were hit.

The work of the Russian Guard in the special operation zone

Within a week, servicemen of the National Guard of Ukraine identified and detained 90 accomplices of the Ukrainian military and various armed groups in Kyiv in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, RIA Novosti reports.

The agency refers to the words of the National Guard, who cited the relevant figures and said that over the past seven days, two large caches of weapons and ammunition have been discovered.

Also on russian.rt.com, the Russian Guard detained a resident of the Zaporozhye region who transmitted data about the Russian military

As a result, Igla portable anti-aircraft missile systems, 15 anti-tank grenade launchers and more than 190 rounds for them, as well as over 6.5 thousand ammunition of various calibers, were seized.

In addition, the National Guard said that while performing a combat mission on the territory of one of the military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a T-72 tank was captured.

For him, a crew was selected from the servicemen of the Russian Guard, who were conscripted into the tank troops.

“We carried out minor repairs, replaced the rollers and eliminated other minor flaws, and the weapons remained in good condition,” the press service of the department quoted the tank commander as saying.

Later, the machine began to perform combat missions in one of the areas of the special military operation.