MiG-31K interceptor fighter with Kinzhal hypersonic missile
Photo: Vladimir VELENGURIN
The Russian Defense Ministry stated that since March 23, one massive strike and 57 group attacks have been carried out with long-range, high-precision land, sea and air weapons, including Zircon hypersonic missiles and Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles, as well as drones. . Attacks have been carried out against military targets in Ukraine and the infrastructure that supports them.
It should be noted that attacks on enterprises of the military-industrial complex were carried out at night, but on the decision-making centers of the armed forces and the Security Service of Ukraine more often during meetings.
Unmanned ship production workshops, arsenals, fuel depots, air defense and energy facilities, as well as temporary deployment points of special operations forces and foreign mercenaries, were also affected.
“The objectives of the strikes have been achieved. All designated targets were hit,” the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, confirmed in a recent briefing and provided data on losses in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the past week.
Thus, in the Kupyansky direction, enemy losses in a week amounted to up to 310 servicemen, in Donetsk to more than 2360, in Avdeevsky to more than 1870, in Yuzhno-Donetsk to more than 860, in Kherson to 370.
In addition to 5,770 Ukrainian servicemen, in one week at the front our soldiers destroyed 22 tanks and dozens of NATO armored vehicles, self-propelled guns and howitzers. In addition, our units improved their position in all directions and in Donetsk they liberated the village of Krasnoye from the Donetsk People’s Republic.
In one week, 18 Ukrainian servicemen were lucky enough to surrender.
Over the past seven days, the missile, artillery and unmanned aerial vehicle forces of our group of forces destroyed four combat vehicles with multiple launch rocket systems, including: “MARS II” of German production, “Vampire” of Czech production and “Grad”, five P-18 radar detection and air target tracking stations, three American-made counterbattery stations: AN/TPQ-36, AN/TPQ-48, AN/TPQ-50, as well as 18 electronic warfare stations: “Nota”, “Enklav-N” and “Bukovel-AD”.
Lieutenant General Konashenkov highlighted the good combat work of the army’s aviation and air defense, the means of which were shot down in one week: 11 Storm Shadow cruise missiles made in Britain, three Neptune anti-ship missiles, four ADM-160 MALD aircraft guided missiles made in the USA, two converted to destroy ground targets, S-200 anti-aircraft missiles, two Hammer aircraft-guided bombs made in France, 171 rockets of the HIMARS, Vampire and Hurricane multiple launch rocket systems, as well as 1,208 unmanned aerial vehicles.
BATTLE REPORT
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
577 – plane.
270 – helicopters.
17773 – unmanned aerial vehicles.
489 – anti-aircraft missile systems.
15644: tanks and other armored combat vehicles.
1257: Multiple Launch Rocket System Combat Vehicles.
8582 – field artillery and mortar guns.
20381: a unit of special military vehicles.
