Photo: Alexander KOTS
The official representative of the Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov announced the latest data on the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the contact line in the zone of special military operation (NVO): more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen were killed on the Kupyansky direction, more than 135 in the Krasno-Limansky direction, up to 65 in the South-Donetsk direction, and up to 65 in the Donetsk direction in More than 250 mercenaries of the Kiev regime were liquidated in the course of successful offensive operations by assault detachments of volunteers with the support of units of the Tula formation of the Airborne Forces, assault aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces, as well as artillery fire systems and heavy flamethrowers of the group of forces “South”.
In addition, according to Konashenkov, ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as dozens of tanks, armored vehicles, self-propelled guns, howitzers and vehicles of Ukrainian nationalists were destroyed in the Katerinovka, Antonovka area. and Chernobayevka.
During the day, our missile and artillery forces hit: in Dobrovolye of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the command post of the 72 mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; team in 113 districts.
“In addition, as a result of an attack near the city of Sumy, the Russian Aerospace Forces attacked a workshop for the production and repair of large-caliber mortars and ammunition for the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the lieutenant general noted in his report.
Konashenkov also noted that air defense units shot down nine HIMARS multiple rocket launchers and ten Ukrainian drones in one day.
BATTLE SUMMARY
In total, since the start of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
386 – aircraft.
210 – helicopters.
3213 – unmanned aerial vehicles.
405 – anti-aircraft missile systems.
7979 – tanks and other armored fighting vehicles.
1037 – multi-launch rocket system combat vehicle.
4179 – field artillery guns and mortars.
8494 – units of special military vehicles.
