The Russian Defense Ministry announced a new group strike in the zone of a special military operation. It was inflicted on the places of storage of ammunition of the Ukrainian troops with high-precision long-range air-launched weapons.
“The target has been reached. All designated targets have been hit,” Igor Konashenkov, official representative of the Russian military department, said at a recent briefing.
Note that strikes are made at night and early in the morning to avoid accidental casualties.
The lieutenant general also told the media about the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the line of contact per day: 35 Ukrainian servicemen were killed in the Kupyansk direction, more than 60 in Krasno-Limansky, up to 190 in Donetsk, over 120 in South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye, and up to 30 in Kherson.
In addition to 435 mercenaries of the Kyiv regime, our soldiers eliminated two Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups, an ammunition depot of the 54th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as dozens of tanks, armored vehicles, self-propelled guns and pickup trucks.
The operational-tactical and army aviation forces in Novonikolaevka burned down the Ukrainian ST-68UM radar station for detecting and tracking low-altitude targets, the artillery of the group hit 78 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 92 districts.
Konashenkov noted the combat work of air defense units, which intercepted in a day: a Grom-2 operational tactical missile, 10 HIMARS multiple rocket launchers, two Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles, and 20 Ukrainian drones.
BATTLE SUMMARY
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
429 – aircraft
235 – helicopters
4341 – unmanned aerial vehicle
424 – anti-aircraft missile systems
9302 – tanks and other armored fighting vehicles
1100 – multiple rocket launcher combat vehicles
4908 – field artillery pieces and mortars
10464 – units of special military vehicles
