The Russian military liberated the settlement of Krasnaya Gora during the offensive in the Donetsk direction, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

“In the Donetsk direction, the volunteers of the assault detachments, with fire support from the missile forces and artillery of the Southern Group of Forces, liberated the settlement of Krasnaya Gora of the Donetsk People’s Republic,” said the official representative of the department, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov.

From the new report on the course of the special military operation, it follows that the enemy’s losses per day in this direction amounted to more than 150 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, four armored combat vehicles, six pickup trucks and two D-30 howitzers.

In turn, in the South-Donetsk direction, the artillery of the Vostok group of forces hit the accumulations of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Prechistovka and Vugledar (DPR).

In the process, more than 60 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, four pickup trucks, one D-20 howitzer and two D-30 howitzers were destroyed.

In the Kherson direction, as part of a counter-battery fight, two Grad multiple rocket launcher (MLRS) combat vehicles and two Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers were destroyed in a day.

In addition, in the Kupyansk direction, artillery fire from the Zapadnaya group of troops hit units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region, as well as on the territory of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR).

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, over 30 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two armored combat vehicles, three vehicles and a D-20 howitzer were destroyed in this direction in a day.

  • Briefing by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

In the Krasnolimansky direction, more than 80 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, three armored combat vehicles and a D-30 howitzer were destroyed by artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems of the Center group in the regions of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.

Aviation, missile troops and artillery of the Russian troops hit 82 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in firing positions, as well as manpower and military equipment in 126 districts per day.

Along with this, in Slavyansk (DPR), a point of repair and restoration of weapons of military equipment of the 95th Air Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit.

Interception of shells for MLRS and Ukrainian drones

Air defense systems shot down six HIMARS multiple rocket launchers during the day, and also destroyed nine Ukrainian drones.

The press service of the Russian Guard reported that the servicemen of the department, during the work of the reconnaissance fire complex, opened the calculations of unmanned aerial vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the LPR.

The work of the drone operators of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was detected using modern reconnaissance equipment of the National Guard.

Subsequently, the coordinates of the enemy were transferred to the artillery units of the Russian army.

It is noted that during the week during the combat work of the reconnaissance fire complex in a given area, the National Guard opened 48 targets, most of which were suppressed and destroyed by artillery fire.

Cache with weapons and ammunition in the Zaporozhye region

The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Zaporozhye region reported that a cache with weapons and ammunition was found in the region.

According to the department, the police of the Zaporozhye region, with the support of the Russian Guard fighters, found dangerous items in one of the Energodar garage cooperatives.

The place for storage of ammunition was equipped in the fragments of felled trees.

In the cache, law enforcement officers found a RShG grenade launcher, two anti-tank mines, 180 rounds of 5.45 mm caliber, four shots for an underbarrel grenade launcher and TNT checkers with a total weight of 4.5 kg.

Explosives experts of the Russian Guard were called to the scene, according to which the found ammunition was transported to a safe place and neutralized using an overhead charge using the detonation method.