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At the latest briefing, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defence, Igor Konashenkov, reported on the advance of units of the Northern Group of Troops in the areas of the settlements of Volchansk, Veseloye, Russkaya Lozovaya, Neskuchnoye and Tsirkuny in the Kharkov region. In these settlements alone, enemy losses per day amounted to 225 soldiers.
At that time, units of the “Western” group of troops killed up to 600 Ukrainian servicemen in Makeyevka, Stelmakhovka, Chervonay Dibrova, Sinkovka, Petropavlovka and Torskoye, units of the “South” group eliminated up to 630 Ukrainian militants in Georgievka, Serebryanka, Minkovka, Sporny, Krasnohorivka, Katerynivka and Yare Khor.
Units of the Center group of troops destroyed up to 490 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, units of the Vostok and Dnepr groups of troops destroyed 140 militants each.
In addition to 2,125 Ukrainian soldiers and foreign mercenaries, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Syrsky, lost 14 field depots, three tanks, dozens of armored vehicles and howitzers from the United States and Great Britain in 24 hours.
Army aviation, drones, missile forces and artillery of our group of forces at the Dolgintsevo airfield in the Dnipropetrovsk region destroyed MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, and also struck two enterprises of the military-industrial complex, an oil refinery and a fuel storage facility supplying military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a production workshop and a storage warehouse for attack drones, as well as accumulations of enemy manpower and military equipment in 128 regions.
Recall that a day earlier, an Iskander-M operational-tactical quasi-ballistic missile with a cluster warhead turned the Mi-24PU1 Crocodile combat helicopter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, along with the crew and technical engineers of the Poltava-4 airfield, into a sieve.
And the day before, the Iskander crew immediately destroyed five fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the Mirgorod airfield.
Lieutenant General Konashenkov noted the combat work of small air defense units, whose forces shot down 37 drones, a French-made Hammer guided aerial bomb, a US-made HARM anti-radar missile and 14 US-made HIMARS missiles.
BATTLE REPORT
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
626 – airplane
277 – helicopters
27197 – unmanned aerial vehicles
537 – anti-aircraft missile systems
16499 – tanks and other armoured combat vehicles
1364 – Multiple launch rocket systems combat vehicles
11326 – Field artillery guns and mortars
23318 – units of special military vehicles.
