“Active actions along the front line”: the RF Armed Forces improved their position in a number of directions in the Northern Military District zone

Over the past 24 hours, Russian military personnel have achieved success in four directions in the special military operation zone. This follows from the report of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

In the Kupyansk direction, units of the Western Group of Forces through active actions improved the situation along the front line and defeated the manpower and equipment of the 41st and 60th mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka (Kharkov region) and Terny (DPR).

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 90 military personnel, as well as a tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, two armored personnel carriers and three pickup trucks. During the counter-battery fight, a Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery mount, two D-20 howitzers, two Gvozdika self-propelled guns and a D-30 gun were hit.

In the Krasnolimansky direction, units of the "Center" group of troops occupied more advantageous lines and positions, defeated the manpower and equipment of the 60th, 63rd mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the 125th territorial defense brigade near the village. Yampolovka village, Torskoye (DPR) and Chervonaya Dibrova (LPR).

Enemy losses included up to 315 military personnel, as well as a tank, four armored combat vehicles, 11 vehicles and a Giatsint-S self-propelled gun.

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In the Donetsk direction, units of the Southern Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line, and also defeated the manpower and equipment of the 24th and 42nd mechanized, 5th assault, 81st airmobile, 79th airborne assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near . Belogorovka village (LPR), Bogdanovka, Kleshcheevka, Kurdyumovka and Nevelskoye (DPR).

Also, four attacks by assault groups of the 79th airborne assault and 24th mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the village were repelled. Georgievka, Leninskoye and Novgorodskoye settlements (DPR).

The enemy lost up to 360 military personnel, as well as four armored combat vehicles, 12 vehicles and a Grad MLRS combat vehicle.

In the South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok group of troops improved the tactical situation and inflicted fire damage on units of the 72nd mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the 128th military defense brigade in the areas of the village. Vodyanoye and Nikolskoye settlements (DPR). Enemy losses amounted to more than 170 military personnel, as well as two armored combat vehicles and two vehicles.

In the Kherson direction, units of the 65th mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the 121st and 126th military defense brigades were defeated near the village. Rabotino village (Zaporozhye region), Zolotaya Balka and Zmievka (Kherson region). The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to up to 40 military personnel, as well as two vehicles.

In addition, operational-tactical aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops of the Russian Armed Forces hit aviation equipment at airfields, warehouses of aircraft weapons, temporary deployment points of foreign mercenaries and special operations forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as manpower and military equipment in 110 districts.

During the day, air defense systems intercepted seven HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, three HARM anti-radar missiles, three JDAM guided aerial bombs and three S-200 anti-aircraft guided missiles converted to hit ground targets.

47 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the LPR, DPR and Zaporozhye region.

The day before, the Ministry of Defense said that in the period from February 11 to 16, the Russian Armed Forces carried out 30 group strikes with high-precision weapons and drones against military-industrial complex facilities of Ukraine, factories that produced fuels and lubricants, warehouses of military-technical equipment, as well as at points of deployment of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and nationalist formations.

During the specified period of time, at least 20 tanks, 77 armored combat vehicles and 59 field artillery guns of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed, as well as a MiG-29 fighter and a Mi-24 helicopter were shot down.