Russian troops destroyed two HIMARS MLRS installations as a result of a missile attack on the location of Ukrainian formations near the village of Staroverovka in the Kharkiv region.
According to the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, during this strike, more than 40 militants were eliminated, and four tanks, 15 vehicles and a missile and artillery depot were also destroyed.
The representative of the Defense Ministry also informed about the course of the confrontation in a number of areas of the special operation in Ukraine over the past day.
So, in the Kupyansk direction, as a result of the active actions of the Russian troops, two reinforced companies of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a unit of foreign mercenaries were defeated.
Enemy losses amounted to more than 70 people, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, two armored personnel carriers and ten vehicles.
In the Krasnolimansky direction, attacks by tank and motorized infantry companies in the direction of n.
Chervonopopovka village (LPR).
The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine exceeded 70 servicemen, four tanks, two armored vehicles and three pickup trucks.
“In the Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched five attacks by company tactical groups ... As a result of fire damage and successful actions of Russian units, the enemy was thrown back to their original positions.
More than 60 Ukrainian servicemen, 17 armored combat vehicles and 12 vehicles were destroyed,” Konashenkov said.
In addition, drone strikes in the area of n.
Vysokopolie and Novogrigorovka settlements (Kherson region) were destroyed by the Buk-M1 air defense system and two American M777 howitzers.
In the sky over the Nikolaev region, fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down an enemy MiG-29.
Over the past 24 hours, nine command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two ammunition depots, 68 artillery units in firing positions, as well as enemy manpower and military equipment in 189 districts were hit.
Air defense systems destroyed 14 Ukrainian UAVs, shot down nine HIMARS shells and eight HARM anti-radar missiles.
According to the defense department, over the entire period of the NMD, 327 enemy aircraft, 164 helicopters, 2370 drones, 384 anti-aircraft missile systems, 6162 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 878 MLRS vehicles, 3536 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 6863 units of special military vehicles.
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"We are waiting for the guys at home"
On Saturday, October 29, 50 Russian prisoners of war returned to their homeland, the press service of the Ministry of Defense reported.
“As a result of the negotiation process, 50 Russian servicemen who were in mortal danger were returned from the territory controlled by the Kyiv regime,” the ministry said in a statement.
The servicemen will be delivered to Moscow, where they will undergo treatment and rehabilitation in medical institutions of the Russian Defense Ministry.
In turn, the acting head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that the exchange took place according to the 50-50 formula.
“They include seven people from the Donetsk People's Republic and two from the Luhansk People's Republic.
We are waiting for the guys at home, ”he wrote.
"The preparation of the attack was carried out under the guidance of British specialists"
Also, the Ministry of Defense reported more detailed information about the attack, which the Ukrainian side carried out early on Saturday morning on ships of the Black Sea Fleet and civilian ships located on the roads in the Sevastopol Bay.
The department qualified the attack as a terrorist attack.
"Nine unmanned aerial vehicles and seven autonomous maritime unmanned vehicles were involved in the attack," the Defense Ministry said.
All air targets were destroyed as a result of operational measures taken by the crews of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet.
Four naval drones were hit on the outer roadstead of Sevastopol using naval weapons and naval aviation, three more devices were destroyed on the inner roadstead.
“Insignificant damage was received by the sea minesweeper Ivan Golubets, as well as a bonnet barrier in Yuzhnaya Bay,” the department said.
“It should be emphasized that the ships of the Black Sea Fleet that were subjected to a terrorist attack are involved in ensuring the security of the grain corridor as part of an international initiative to export agricultural products from Ukrainian ports.”
In connection with this attack, the Ministry of Defense and the Foreign Ministry later announced the suspension by the Russian side of participation in the grain deal.
The Foreign Ministry stressed that this, in particular, was due to the fact that the actions of the Ukrainian military during the attack were led by British specialists.
“The preparation of this terrorist act and the training of military personnel of the Ukrainian 73rd Special Center for Maritime Operations were carried out under the guidance of British specialists located in the city of Ochakov, Mykolaiv region of Ukraine,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.
They added that, according to available information, representatives of this unit of the British Navy also took part in the planning, provision and implementation of the terrorist attack to undermine the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines, which was carried out at the end of September in the Baltic Sea. .