Russian Armed Forces blocked Soledar

The Ministry of Defense stated that the city of Soledar was blocked by Russian troops.

“VDV units blocked Soledar from the northern and southern parts of the city.

The Russian Aerospace Forces strike at enemy strongholds.

Assault detachments are fighting in the city,” said the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov.

According to him, in the course of successful offensive operations, Russian troops liberated the settlement of Podgorodnoye (DPR) in the Donetsk direction.

As a result of the fire damage of units of the 61st mechanized and 17th tank brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, up to 80 servicemen, one tank, three armored combat vehicles and two vehicles were destroyed.

Earlier, the head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that the group's units had taken control of the territory of Soledar.

Subsequently, RT published an exclusive video of Wagner PMC from a salt mine under the city.

  • The first video of PMC "Wagner" from the salt mine under the city

The situation in other directions of the NWO

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, up to 25 Ukrainian servicemen, an infantry fighting vehicle and two vehicles were destroyed in the South-Donetsk direction as a result of inflicting complex fire damage on units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In the Kupyansk direction, artillery and army aviation attacked the accumulations of manpower of the 92nd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 103rd territorial defense brigade in the areas of a number of settlements in the Kharkov region and the LPR.

As a result, over 30 Ukrainian servicemen and two vehicles were destroyed.

In the Krasnolimansky direction, artillery, assault and army aviation defeated the assault groups of the 95th, 80th airborne assault and 25th airborne brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of settlements of the DPR and LPR.

In addition, four sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were liquidated on the territory of the LPR and Serebryansky forestry.

In total, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 90 servicemen killed and wounded in this direction, two armored combat vehicles and three vehicles.

Aviation, rocket troops and artillery hit the command and observation post of the battalion of the 57th motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Artyomovsk.

Along with this, 74 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, manpower and military equipment in 113 districts were hit during the day.

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

During the counter-battery fight, a Ukrainian launcher of a multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) Uragan, a US-made M777 artillery system, as well as two Ukrainian self-propelled guns 2S7 Pion, a D-20 towed howitzer, two D-30 howitzers were destroyed at firing positions and self-propelled howitzer 2S1 "Gvozdika".

In the area of ​​​​Artyomovsk and Dzerzhinsk in the DPR, US-made counter-battery radars AN / TPQ-50 and AN / TPQ-36 were destroyed.

Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Su-27 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force.

Air defense systems destroyed two Ukrainian drones in the air in a day.

Along with this, five rockets of the HIMARS and Alder systems were intercepted.

An American HARM anti-radar missile was also shot down.

The work of artillerymen of the Russian Guard in the NVO zone

Artillerymen of the Russian Guard hit five strongholds, two hangars with equipment and other enemy targets in a week, the press service of the department said.

Along with this, units of the National Guard during special targeted and reconnaissance and search activities in the territory of Kherson and Zaporozhye regions discovered 16 suspected of complicity with the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In addition, with the participation of the Russian Guard, firearms were seized from illicit circulation, including machine guns of various modifications, hunting rifles, grenade launchers and shots for them, anti-tank guided missiles, as well as rocket-propelled infantry flamethrowers, hand grenades, more than 2 kg of explosives, components for manufacture of explosive devices and cartridges of various calibers.