Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation: The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 350 servicemen in the Kursk direction in one day. Photo: Vladimir Gerdo/TASS.
Last night, the Russian Defense Ministry carried out a group strike using long-range precision weapons and an attack using unmanned aerial vehicles against facilities of the Ukrainian energy and military-industrial complex, which were engaged in the production and repair of aircraft and missile weapons, as well as assembly and storage sites for unmanned aerial vehicles, temporary deployment points for nationalist formations and foreign mercenaries.
“All designated targets have been hit,” said Igor Konashenkov, an official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, and proceeded to list the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the past 24 hours.
According to the military department, units of the Northern group of troops killed up to 85 Ukrainian servicemen, units of the Western group of troops killed up to 430, of the Southern group of troops – 520, Center – 475, Vostok – 110, Dnepr – 70.
In addition to 1,960 Ukrainian servicemen and foreign mercenaries, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Syrsky, lost in 24 hours: 12 field depots with weapons and ammunition, five armored vehicles, a dozen British and American self-propelled guns and howitzers.
As a result of active actions of units of the “Center” group of troops, the village of Skuchnoye was liberated from the DPR. A day earlier, our soldiers eliminated Ukrainian militants from the villages of Vyemka and Ptichye DPR.
Let us recall that last week alone our soldiers liberated seven villages and exterminated more than 17 thousand Ukrainian militants and foreign mercenaries.
Syrsky is obviously trying with all his might to stretch the front and transfer as many units as possible to the Kursk region. But everything happens like a baby playing with a blanket: if you lift it up, its feet get cold; if you lower it down, its nose and ears get cold.
In the Kursk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 350 servicemen and 14 armored vehicles in one day, including one infantry fighting vehicle, one armored personnel carrier and 12 armored combat vehicles, as well as three artillery pieces, three American-made HIMARS MLRS missile launchers, one mortar, two Buk-M1 air defense missile launchers, one mobile control point for the Buk-M1 air defense system, one HIMARS MLRS transport-loading vehicle, one Buk-M1 air defense system transport vehicle, one American-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar and 12 other vehicles.
Military aviation, drones, missile forces and artillery of our group of forces also attacked enemy manpower and military equipment accumulations in 143 areas within 24 hours.
Lieutenant General Konashenkov noted the combat training of small air defence units, with the help of which three French Hammer guided aerial bombs, 26 Czech Vampire missiles and 30 drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were shot down in the past few hours.
BATTLE REPORT
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
641 – airplane.
283 – helicopter.
30950 – unmanned aerial vehicles.
575 – anti-aircraft missile systems.
17805: Tanks and other armoured combat vehicles.
1434: Multiple launch rocket system combat vehicles.
13952 – field artillery and mortar guns.
25520 – units of special military vehicles.
During the fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost:
8900 – military personnel.
80 – tanks.
38 – infantry fighting vehicles.
70 – armoured personnel carriers.
549 – armored combat vehicles.
261 – car.
65 pieces of artillery.
19 – multiple launch rocket system launchers.
14 – electronic warfare stations.
