“50 thousand are in combat units”: Putin called the number of mobilized in the zone of the special operation

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that about 80 thousand mobilized Russians are in the zone of the special military operation in Ukraine.

According to the head of state, about 50,000 of them are involved in combat operations.

“We now have 50 thousand in combat units ... The rest are not yet taking part in hostilities.

But there are up to 80 thousand in the zone (conducting NWO. -

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The rest are all just at the training grounds, ”Putin said during a meeting with the Governor of the Tver Region, Igor Rudenya, during a working trip to the region.

During the discussion of the issue of payments to the mobilized, the president said that he intended to personally discuss the topic of their support.

“I will definitely meet with people, I will talk about this in order to hear, in order to have feedback,” Putin said.

The head of state stressed that the authorities at all levels should pay attention to all those mobilized, "wherever they are."

Recall that a partial mobilization in Russia was announced on September 21.

At the end of October, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to the President on the completion of these measures, during which 300 thousand people were recruited into the armed forces.

The minister noted that in the future, the recruitment of troops will continue at the expense of volunteers and contract servicemen.

Statement of the Ministry of Defense on the 155th Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet

On Monday, November 7, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation released an official commentary in which it refuted the statements of a number of Russian bloggers about “high useless losses in people and equipment” among the fighters of the 155th Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet), allegedly distributed on behalf of military personnel.

The department emphasized that the units of this brigade have been conducting effective offensive operations in the Ugledar direction of the NMD for more than ten days, and advancement in this area reaches 5 km.

“Due to the competent actions of unit commanders, the losses of marines over this period do not exceed 1% of the combat strength and 7% of the wounded, a significant part of whom have already returned to duty,” the ministry noted.

It is clarified that enemy losses along the line of contact of the brigade average seven to one in people and equipment, and in some areas - nine to one.

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Earlier, the governor of Primorsky Krai Oleg Kozhemyako spoke about the situation.

According to him, the authorities asked the military prosecutor's office to check the materials about the losses in the 155th Separate Guards Marine Corps Brigade of the Pacific Fleet, which had previously been distributed on social networks.

At the same time, the head of the region noted that "the losses of Primorye residents are significantly exaggerated," and stressed the importance of verifying any information published on social networks in the context of the information war.

The situation in the NWO zone

Speaking about the course of the special operation, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, during a briefing, said that Russian troops continue to repel attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a number of areas.

According to him, in the Kupyansk direction, the enemy launched an offensive with the forces of two battalion tactical groups, reinforced by foreign mercenaries.

The attack was stopped by army aviation strikes, artillery fire and active actions of Russian troops.

The enemy lost up to 100 people, two tanks, five armored fighting vehicles and five pickup trucks.

In the Krasnoliman direction, attempts were made to advance with two battalion tactical groups.

All attacks were repulsed, and the enemy's losses amounted to more than 120 soldiers killed and up to 130 wounded, three tanks, two armored vehicles and five cars.

In turn, the offensive of the battalion tactical group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was repelled in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction.

The enemy was driven back to their original positions.

More than 110 Ukrainian servicemen were liquidated, 11 armored combat vehicles and 13 vehicles were destroyed.

Over the past day, Russian aviation, missile forces and artillery hit seven enemy command posts, 72 artillery units in firing positions, as well as manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 186 districts.

• Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the NMD on the territory of Ukraine

Two depots of rocket and artillery weapons were destroyed in the Zaporozhye region, as well as a fuel storage facility for military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Mykolaiv region.

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Kramatorsk (DPR) and Volnyansk (Zaporozhye region) villages, two radar stations of Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems were destroyed.

Along with this, in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bNovoselka (DPR), a self-propelled firing system of the Buk-M1 air defense system was hit.

During the day, air defense systems shot down a Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force, six enemy drones and 14 rockets from HIMARS and Alder multiple launch rocket systems.

The situation at the ZNPP

The Russian Defense Ministry also stated that Kyiv does not stop provocations in order to create a threat of a man-made disaster at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

During the day, the Ukrainian military fired seven large-caliber shells at the ZNPP industrial area.

The shelling was carried out from the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe settlement of Vyshetarasovka (Dnipropetrovsk region).

The Russian military suppressed the enemy battery with return fire.

The radiation situation at the station remains normal.