Three servicemen died due to injuries sustained as a result of the fall of the wreckage of a drone at the Engels military airfield in the Saratov region.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the incident occurred on December 26 at about 01:35 Moscow time.

Air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian drone at low altitude while approaching a military airfield.

“As a result of the fall of the wreckage of the drone, three Russian servicemen of the technical staff who were at the airfield were fatally injured,” the department said.

It is noted that the aviation equipment based in Engels was not damaged.

In turn, the governor of the Saratov region, Roman Busargin, said that no emergencies were recorded in the residential areas of Engels.

According to him, as a result of the emergency, there is no threat to residents, the city's civil infrastructure facilities were not damaged.

Shelling of the DNR and LNR

The representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine, on the morning of December 26, announced 53 facts of firing by the AFU over the past day.

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During shelling, the enemy used artillery of 122, 152 and 155 mm caliber.

A total of 189 units of various ammunition were fired.

Such settlements as Donetsk, Maiorsk, Panteleimonovka, Red Partizan, as well as Yasinovataya, Yakovlevka and Makeevka were shelled.

As a result of shelling, one person was injured, six houses and one civilian infrastructure were damaged.

The representative office of the LPR in the JCCC, in turn, reported the shelling of the village of Mikhailovka from the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system.

People's Militia of the LPR - about the situation on the line of contact

Andrey Marochko, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR, said that during the monitoring of radio frequencies in the zone of responsibility of the 2nd Army Corps, the presence of foreign citizens was detected on the line of contact.

“Most recorded conversations were in English with various dialects.

There is also German, French, Italian and Polish speech, ”Marochko wrote on Telegram.

According to him, in the course of observations over the past month, the presence of mercenaries from more than 30 countries of near and far abroad was revealed.

In addition, Marochko said that the arrival of three civilian vehicles with the logos of an unnamed international humanitarian organization in which there was a military cargo was recorded in Artyomovsk.

According to Marochko, the vehicles contained communications, surveillance, unmanned aerial vehicles, batteries and generators.

Among the vehicles that arrived was also a truck fully loaded with weapons and ammunition, a spokesman for the NM LPR said.

It is specified that the persons accompanying the cargo were in civilian clothes, had Western-style body armor and communicated with each other in Russian and Ukrainian.

Along with this, Marochko spoke about the situation in Artyomovsk during the RT stream “Lituchka”.

According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are suffering heavy losses in this direction.

“According to our calculations, about 500 people [of the Armed Forces of Ukraine] “lay down” every day in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Artyomovsk,” he said.

As Marochko noted, the Svatovsko-Soledar direction is “already catching up” with Artyomovsk in terms of losses.

Among other things, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR said that the personnel of the 14th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction began to massively sabotage the orders of the higher command.

According to Marochko, the reason for the refusal to carry out combat orders is the lack of combat readiness of the units due to the understaffing of personnel, weapons and equipment.

He also noted that the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have questions to the leadership about the large number of unjustified losses.