The targets were hit by Msta-S and Hyacinth-B 152 mm guns, as well as rocket artillery. As a result, the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost at least six tanks, three BMP-1s, as well as four civilian trucks for transporting equipment.
According to RT, after an artillery strike on the territory of the Orekhovsky bakery, used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to store equipment and ammunition, employees of the SBU and the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine arrived at the scene. At the same time, residents of nearby houses began to confiscate phones, computers and recordings from video surveillance cameras.
Ambulances continue to arrive at the place where military equipment, ammunition for tanks, BMPs and Javelin anti-tank complexes were stored.
Presumably, the artillery strike hit the neighboring living quarters, where the tank crews of the 65th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the servicemen of the support company were located.
According to preliminary information, the death toll is estimated at 70, about 100 more people were seriously injured.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian army destroyed near the city of Zaporozhye controlled by the Ukrainian authorities the storage of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, where there were about 70 thousand tons of fuel.
Also, the defense Ministry informed that the warehouses of missile and artillery weapons and ammunition of the Ukrainian army were destroyed in the area of the settlements of Orekhovo in the Zaporozhye region and Ugledar in the Donetsk People's Republic.