Huge clouds of flame rose above the step.
At a briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the destruction of a military echelon with ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the Mezhevaya railway station in the Dnepropetrovsk region was demonstrated. It is quite laconic: first, a drone flew over the railway crossing, and then a rocket flew over the coordinates. Huge clouds of flame rose above the step.
And so along the entire line of contact. In the Donetsk direction alone, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 310 soldiers in four attacks in one day, and our assault detachments carried out another successful offensive and improved the position along the front line.
The official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov also reported on the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in other areas: in the Kupyansk direction, Ukrainian units lost 125 soldiers in six attacks, and our units improved their position to along the first line, up to 55 Ukrainian troops were destroyed at Krasnolimansky, and more than 175 at Yuzhno-Donetsk, at Zaporozhye as many as 195, at Kherson as many as 30.
In addition to 890 mercenaries, our soldiers deprived the Kiev regime of one tank, seven armored fighting vehicles, two American artillery systems M777 and M109 “Paladin”, four armored personnel carriers “Stryker” (USA) , a British gun “FH-70 “, and many other different armored vehicles and weapons from the Soviet sample.
In addition, during the day, operational-tactical and military aviation, missile forces in the Zaporozhye region hit two checkpoints for UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and on Serebryanka a command and observation post of a unit of the 67 mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and an ammunition depot were destroyed. During the day, the artillery of the grouping of our troops inflicted the defeat of the manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 138 districts.
Air defense units intercepted a HIMARS multiple rocket launcher and 18 Ukrainian drones in one day.
BATTLE SUMMARY
In total, since the start of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
459 – aircraft.
246 – helicopters.
5805 – unmanned aerial vehicles.
431 – anti-aircraft missile system.
11349 – tanks and other armored fighting vehicles.
1144 – multiple rocket launcher combat vehicles.
5918 – field artillery guns and mortars.
12289 – units of special military vehicles.
