In the Donetsk direction, units of the Russian Armed Forces are conducting successful offensive operations in the area of ​​​​the city of Artemovsk of the Donetsk People's Republic.

This was announced during a briefing by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov.

“As a result of fire damage and the actions of Russian troops, more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen and six armored combat vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in this direction in a day,” Konashenkov said.

According to him, in the South-Donetsk direction, the enemy attempted to break into the settlement of Pavlovka in the DPR, but a unit of Ukrainian militants "was forced into a minefield and destroyed by artillery fire."

“The attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of the settlement of Shevchenko in the Donetsk People's Republic ended unsuccessfully.

Attack aviation strikes and artillery fire drove the enemy back to their original positions with significant losses.

The enemy’s losses per day in this direction amounted to 40 Ukrainian servicemen killed, one infantry fighting vehicle and three pickup trucks,” he added.

At the same time, in the Kupyansk direction, an attempt by the enemy to attack near Kuzemovka of the LPR was thwarted by army aviation strikes, artillery fire, tanks and heavy flamethrower systems.

An attempted attack in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Yagodnoye, Kharkiv region, was also thwarted by a fire defeat.

As a result, the enemy lost more than 60 Ukrainian servicemen, two pickup trucks and two cars.

In addition, in the Krasnolimansky direction, artillery strikes managed to repel an attack in the direction of three settlements of the LPR (Ploschanka, Chervonopopovka and Zhitlovka).

At the same time, the enemy forces were thrown back to the starting line.

“The attacks of two assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of the settlement of Kremennaya of the Luhansk People's Republic were thwarted by the infliction of fire damage in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe Serebryansky forestry and decisive actions of the Russian troops.

In addition, three sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe settlement of Chervonaya Dibrova in the Lugansk People's Republic.

The enemy’s losses per day in this direction amounted to more than 80 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, one tank, an infantry fighting vehicle and an armored car,” Konashenkov said.

In addition, operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery hit the temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian nationalist formation in the Dibrov region of the DPR, and two anti-radar stations of counter-battery warfare manufactured by the USA AN / TPQ-37 in the DPR were destroyed.

In the Zaporizhzhya region, a warehouse of ammunition and rocket and artillery weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed, in the Kharkiv region, an oil depot was destroyed, from which the military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction was supplied with fuel.

In addition, 69 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated.

Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in the DPR.

In turn, nine Ukrainian drones were shot down by air defense systems - in the LPR, the DPR and in the Kharkiv region.

At the same time, five HIMARS and Uragan multiple rocket launchers were intercepted in the LPR and the Zaporozhye region, as well as two American HARM anti-radar missiles in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.

Provocations of the Kyiv regime

The Kyiv regime is preparing a provocation to disrupt the UN initiative to resume the transit of ammonia through the Togliatti-Odessa pipeline, a military-diplomatic source said in a conversation with RIA Novosti.

According to him, the plans of the enemy include the implementation of explosions on the domed roofs of storage facilities for ammonia on the territory of the Odessa Port Plant.

At the same time, the consequences for what happened will allegedly be attributed to a missile attack inflicted by the Russian military.

“The provocation was planned and is being implemented under the control of representatives of the British special services located in Odessa.

Contract soldiers of the Canadian PMC GardaWorld are also involved in the implementation of this provocation, carrying out, under an agreement with the administration of the seaports of Ukraine, the functions of protecting the port infrastructure in the Odessa region,” he said.

Commenting on this information, Viktor Vodolatsky, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots, noted that the West does not pay attention to Kyiv's provocations, because American and British intelligence services are behind them.

“What we are warning the world community is that it can postpone a provocation for several days or months, but if it is in the plans of the Western intelligence services, then they will carry it out anyway.

America wants to create a powerful field around Russia, from which, in their opinion, Russia will not be able to get out.

But there are other countries that work calmly with Russia and know that one unpredictable state is to blame for all the troubles that are happening on the planet today - the United States, which is trying to build its own world order, a unipolar world, ”the parliamentarian explained in an interview with RT.