The press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense said that attack aircraft crews on Su-25 aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit strongholds, concentrations of manpower and armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction.

As the department clarified, the strike was carried out by unguided aircraft missiles (UAR) S-13, followed by pitching up at an extremely low altitude of 25 m.

“Then we performed a retreat from the target, a maneuver to prevent the anti-aircraft missile system from entering the affected area.

The forward air gunner confirmed the hit of the target.

Landing was carried out at the home airfield.

After the commander’s report on the completion of the combat mission, they confirmed from the ground that the enemy’s manpower had been destroyed,” the Ministry of Defense quotes the words of the pilot with the call sign Traktor.

The press service of the defense department also published footage of the work of motorized riflemen of the Dnepr group in the area of ​​​​the village of Rabotino in the Zaporozhye region.

As the Ministry of Defense noted, Russian military personnel manage to take the enemy by surprise, occupy and gain a foothold in strongholds inside a populated area.

As the tank commander with the call sign Sniper said, before the assault, the tank unit paved the way through the minefields.

After the tankers had worked, infantry began to enter Rabotino using infantry fighting vehicles.

“The maneuvers were carried out unforeseen.

The enemy could not predict our actions, he could only guess.

Due to the fact that he could only guess them, we naturally completed the task with an A plus,” he added.

As the Ministry of Defense emphasized, the operation to storm the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of ​​​​the village of Rabotino was organized in cooperation with all types and branches of the military.

It is noted that air and ground reconnaissance were carried out, and powerful artillery preparation was carried out.

The head of the press center of the “West” group, Ivan Bigma, said that in the Kupyansk direction, motorized rifle units together with aviation repelled seven attacks by assault groups of the 32nd mechanized, 57th motorized infantry, 77th airmobile and 95th air assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

According to Bigma, during the counter-battery fight, four artillery pieces were destroyed, including a 122-mm D-30 howitzer, a 155-mm American-made M777 howitzer, a 122-mm self-propelled artillery mount (SAU) 2S1 “Gvozdika” and a 152-mm howitzer D-20.

In addition, during the air defense, the West group of troops destroyed 48 drones in one day.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the enemy lost up to 145 military personnel, two BMP-1s, four artillery pieces, a mortar crew and two pickup trucks in the Kupyansk direction.

The head of the press center of the Center group, Alexander Savchuk, said that with the support of artillery, 11 counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repelled in the areas of Leninsky, Novgorodsky, Novobakhmutovka, Tonenky, Orlovka and Pervomaisky.

In addition, strikes were carried out on a number of enemy targets.

“In total, within 24 hours, 147 identified enemy targets were hit by fire, including six platoon strongholds and more than 30 areas where manpower, equipment and fire weapons were concentrated,” Savchuk said.

In addition, crews of heavy flamethrower systems destroyed four firing positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Novobakhmutovka area.

Along with this, air defense systems shot down a HIMARS MLRS rocket.