Russian troops launched a strike with sea-based precision weapons on the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the city of Khmelnytsky in western Ukraine.

As the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, clarified, the deployment point of the 383rd regiment of unmanned aerial vehicles and an ammunition depot near the Grechany railway station were hit.

The speaker of the Defense Ministry also spoke about the course of the special operation.

So, in the Kupyansk direction, the enemy lost up to 70 people, the Grad MLRS and two armored vehicles per day.

It is noted that units of the Western Group of Forces attacked the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Dvurechnaya, Krakhmalnoe (Kharkiv region) and Novoselovskoye (LPR).

In the Krasnolimansky direction, Russian operational-tactical aviation, artillery, heavy flamethrower systems and other units of the "Center" group of troops hit the location of the Armed Forces of Ukraine formations near the settlement.

settlements of Stelmakhovka, Chervonopopovka and Chervonaya Dibrova (LPR), Terny (DPR) and in the area of ​​Serebryansky forestry.

According to the Ministry of Defense, over the past day, the enemy lost over 200 military killed and wounded in this sector, as well as infantry fighting vehicles, five armored vehicles, Gvozdika self-propelled guns and a 152-mm D-20 towed howitzer.

“Up to 250 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, six vehicles, D-20 and D-30 howitzers, as well as a Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery mount were destroyed in the Donetsk direction during the continuation of the offensive operations of the units of the Southern Group of Forces,” he said. Konashenkov.

According to him, in the region of

Pervomaiskoye village (DPR), the camouflaged position of the Ukrainian Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system was discovered, after which the self-propelled launcher of the air defense system was destroyed.

In addition, near

Chasov Yar (DPR) and Demurino (Dnipropetrovsk region) were hit by two American counter-battery radars AN / TPQ-50 and AN / TPQ-36, and an ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed in the Maryinka area.

“In the South-Donetsk and Zaporizhia directions, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems of the Vostok group of troops defeated the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Ugledar of the Donetsk People's Republic.

Enemy losses amounted to up to 70 servicemen killed and wounded, one tank, an infantry fighting vehicle, two armored fighting vehicles, two D-30 howitzers and one D-20 howitzer,” Konashenkov said.

Also close to N.

in the village of Vodiane (DPR), two warehouses of the 72nd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with ammunition and fuel for military equipment were destroyed.

In the Kherson direction over the past day, up to 15 Ukrainian soldiers were liquidated and the Akatsiya and Gvozdika self-propelled guns, the Msta-B howitzer, five vehicles and four ammunition depots were destroyed.

Russian army aviation, rocket troops and artillery attacked 92 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions and concentrations of enemy manpower and equipment in 118 districts, and near Ugledar and N.

the village of Malinovka (Zaporozhye region), the command posts of the 72nd mechanized brigade and the 102nd brigade of the defense were hit.

Air defense systems shot down six Ukrainian drones in a day.

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Meanwhile, Ukrainian armed formations continue to shell residential areas of the cities of Donbass and other territories in the area of ​​the NMD.

So, on the afternoon of Sunday, February 19, from n.

The settlement of Lastochkino was dealt a massive strike from the MLRS on the Kyiv and Voroshilovsky regions of Donetsk.

According to the mayor of the city Alexei Kulemzin, 40 rockets were fired in a few minutes.

As a result of the shelling, the buildings of the kindergarten, school, library, hostels of DonNTU, several apartment buildings, an indoor market, and a bus station were damaged.

“This is the systematic destruction of civilians by Ukrainian punishers,” Kulemzin said.

According to preliminary data, seven people were injured.