The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hit enemy ammunition and weapons depots, manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 121 districts with air strikes, drones, missile forces and artillery. This was reported in the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Command and observation posts of units of the 67th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 100th Territorial Defense Brigade and the 12th Special Forces Brigade near the village of Serebryanka in the Donetsk People's Republic were also hit.
Air defense systems shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force near the village of Veselaya Gora (DPR). A HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and a US-made HARM anti-radar missile were also intercepted. In the DPR and LPR, 27 Ukrainian drones were destroyed.
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Situation on the Line of Contact
In the Kupiansk direction, professional actions of units of the Western Group of Forces, army aviation strikes, artillery fire repelled five attacks by assault groups of the 57th Motorized Infantry and 41st Mechanized Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Synkovka in the Kharkiv region and Lake Lyman.
The enemy's losses amounted to 75 servicemen, two tanks, four armored personnel carriers, two pickup trucks, a Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled artillery unit manufactured in Germany, an M198 howitzer made in the United States and a D-30 gun.
In the Krasnolimansk direction, units of the Center group of troops, in cooperation with artillery, repelled two attacks by the 24th Mechanized Brigade and the 44th Separate Rifle Battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the settlements of Dzerzhinsk and Yampolovka (DPR).
The total losses of the enemy amounted to 280 servicemen, two infantry fighting vehicles and three vehicles. During the counter-battery fight, two US-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery mounts were hit.
In the Donetsk direction, units of the Southern Group of Forces, in cooperation with aviation and artillery, repelled two attacks by assault groups of the 67th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Klishchievka (DPR). The enemy's losses in this direction amounted to 175 servicemen, three armored combat vehicles and two vehicles. In addition, during the counter-battery fight, the following were hit: a US-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery mount, two Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mounts, a Gvozdika self-propelled gun, a D-30 howitzer, as well as a US-made M119 gun.
In the South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok group of troops, in cooperation with assault, army aviation and artillery, inflicted fire damage on the manpower and equipment of the 23rd Mechanized, 58th Motorized Infantry Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 128th Territorial Defense Brigade in the areas of the settlements of Sladkoye, Nikolskoye and Urozhaynoye (DPR). The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this direction amounted to 160 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, as well as the M777 artillery system manufactured by the United States.
In the Zaporizhzhia direction, units of the Russian group of troops, air strikes and artillery fire defeated concentrations of servicemen of the 33rd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Rabotino, Zaporizhzhia region. The enemy's losses amounted to 60 servicemen, two vehicles, as well as two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery units.
In the Kherson direction, units of Russian troops, artillery fire and air strikes defeated the enemy near the village of Chervony Mayak in the Kherson region. The enemy lost up to 65 servicemen killed and wounded, two vehicles and a self-propelled artillery unit "Gvozdika" were hit.