Igor Konashenkov, official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry.
Photo: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
“Subdivisions of the Zapadnaya group of forces, with the support of operational tactical aviation and artillery fire, have actively improved the position along the front line in the Kupyansk direction,” said Igor Konashenkov, official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, in a recent report.
We have improved this situation due to the upcoming heavy losses by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In their numerous “meat raids”, Ukrainian units of the 25th Airborne Brigade, the 95th Assault Airborne Brigade and the 14th Mechanized Brigade lost 160 soldiers, a field ammunition depot from a unit of the 103rd Terodefense Brigade, five armored fighting vehicles, two vehicles, the US artillery system. M777 and M109 “Paladin”, the Polish self-propelled guns “Krab”, as well as two US-made counter-battery radars AN / TPQ-50.
Konashenkov also reported on the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in other parts of the contact line: more than 80 Ukrainian servicemen in the Zaporozhye direction, up to 225 in Donetsk, up to 110 in Yuzhno-Donetsk, up to 75 in Krasno-Limansky, and up to 45 in Kherson.
In addition to these 695 mercenaries, the Kiev regime lost in one day the ammunition depot of the 65 mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the British FH-70 howitzer and the AS-90 Braveheart self-propelled gun, two American M119 cannons. and the M777 artillery system, as well as the AN/TPQ – 50 (US).
They say that in this violent variety of ways to destroy his compatriots, Zelensky plans to dilute himself with the old NATO F-16 jets. It seems that the “last Ukrainian”, who has not yet been caught on the streets of Krivoy Rog, will perish on them.
In addition, during the day, the operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of our group inflicted a complex defeat on the manpower and military equipment of the enemy in 167 districts.
Konashenkov highlighted the combat work of the air defense units, which shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in the sky over Donbass, intercepted three missiles of the Uragan and HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems and 36 UAVs from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Two more aircraft-type drones were suppressed by Russian Defense Ministry electronic warfare in the Ruzsky and Istra districts of the Moscow region. Enemy drones missed their targets.
MEANWHILE
The head of the press center of the Vostok grouping, Oleg Chekhov, spoke about the driver of the tank company of the tank regiment of the group, Corporal Denis Semenov, who, as part of the tank crew, shows courage and heroism at the to repel the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in one of the sectors of the South direction of Donetsk.
So, during one of the battles, our tankers, despite the impact of artillery fire from the Ukrainian troops, managed in a short time to identify and destroy several foreign-made armored fighting vehicles with direct fire.
BATTLE SUMMARY
In total, since the start of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
462 – aircraft.
246 – helicopters.
5913 – unmanned aerial vehicles.
431 – anti-aircraft missile system.
11426 – tanks and other armored fighting vehicles.
1144 – multi-launch rocket system combat vehicles.
5969 – field artillery guns and mortars.
12357 – units of special military vehicles.
