Igor Konashenkov, official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry.
Photo: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
The Ministry of Defense of Russia reports bloody battles in the Kupyansk direction, where units of the group of troops “Western” repelled five attacks by assault detachments of the 41, 66, 67 mechanized and 25 airborne brigades of the Russian Armed Forces. Ukraine in one day. The fighting is taking place in the areas of the Sinkovka settlements in the Kharkiv region, Novoselovskoye and Raygorodok in the Lugansk People’s Republic.
In this section of the contact line alone, the enemy’s losses amounted to: up to 65 Ukrainian servicemen, four infantry fighting vehicles, two vehicles, one D-20 howitzer and one American-made AN / TPQ-50 counter-battery radar . .
The official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov reported the figures for the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in other areas: in the Zaporozhye direction in four attacks near Uspenovka and Rabotino, Ukrainian commanders lost 125 of their soldiers, in Donetsk up to 235, in Krasnolimansky more than 50, in Yuzhno-Donetsk up to 240, in Kherson up to 15.
In addition to 730 Kiev regime mercenaries, our soldiers eliminated in one day: an ammunition depot of the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade, 11 enemy guns and four mortars, seven M777 (US) artillery systems, three towed howitzers M119 (USA), two Polish Krab self-propelled guns, one French Cezar, two British FH-70 guns, as well as a dozen modern infantry fighting vehicles and other Soviet equipment.
During this time, operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops in Orekhov, Zaporozhye region, hit the command and observation post of the 46 airmobile brigade unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and in the area from the village of Vasilkovka, Dnepropetrovsk region, the ammunition depot of the 1st tank brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed. During the day, our group’s artillery hit enemy manpower and military equipment in 139 districts.
Konashenkov noted the excellent combat work of the air defense units, which shot down four rockets of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and 39 Ukrainian UAVs in one day. Six more were destroyed off the Crimean coast, over the Bryansk and Moscow regions. As a result of the terrorist attacks by 45 Ukrainian drones, there were no casualties.
Last night, the crew of the Su-30SM aircraft of the naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet in the area of the Russian gas production facilities in the Black Sea destroyed a reconnaissance ship of the armed formations of Ukraine, and in the morning , east of Snake Island, our pilots sank another US-made high-speed military ship, Willard Sea Force with a landing party from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
MEANWHILE
The officer of the press center of the group “Vostok” Oleg Chekhov spoke about the example of courage and heroism in the performance of combat missions of the battalion of the motorized rifle brigade of the group, commanded by Major Alexander Mineev. He led the personnel during the offensive of the Ukrainian troops in one of the sectors of the South-Donetsk direction. Carrying out the positional defense, the motorized infantry, under the command of Major Mineev, managed to repel three superior attacks on the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as identify and suppress two strongholds of the nationalists in several days of heavy fighting. The enemy did not succeed in this sector of the front, the positions of the Russian troops were held.
BATTLE SUMMARY
In total, since the start of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
462 – aircraft.
246 – helicopters.
5952 – unmanned aerial vehicles.
431 – anti-aircraft missile system.
11445 – tanks and other armored fighting vehicles.
1144 – multi-launch rocket system combat vehicles.
5996 – field artillery guns and mortars.
12372 – units of special military vehicles.
