The enemy continues to try to cut off Krasny Liman from supplies: a new report from the Ministry of Defense
The enemy continues to attempt to take Krasny Liman or bypass it from the north, taking it into an operational encirclement and cutting off supplies. At the moment, this is the most difficult direction of all for the Russian troops.
The fighting in the area of Krasny Liman and Kupyansk does not stop, the enemy continues to put pressure, throwing more and more new reserves into battle and not taking losses into account. Intense battles are going on in the Kupyansk region, the enemy has occupied the Kupyansk-uzlovaya station and a piece of the industrial zone. Attempts to pass to the north were bogged down in our defenses. The situation is very complicated, there is simply not enough people, but you can’t transfer them from other areas. Therefore, it remains to stand and hold on, waiting for the reinforcements to arrive. Artillery helps a lot, and in all areas. The losses of the Armed Forces here amounted to more than 70 people killed, four tank, six infantry fighting vehicles and three armored vehicles.
The enemy's attempts to take Krasny Liman head-on failed, but the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the north of the city was quite successful, several settlements were taken. However, they pass from hand to hand, so it is impossible to say exactly under whom these villages are. Now the Armed Forces of Ukraine are pressing in the Yampol area, trying to take it and force the Russian troops to retreat so as not to be surrounded. This means leaving Krasny Liman and Drobyshevo.
It is stable in the south, ours are finishing off the surviving Vushniks on the so-called Andreevsky bridgehead, the enemy conducts small counterattacks, falls under artillery strikes and aviation and retreats after suffering losses. In Soledar and Artemovsk, ours are advancing, but without significant advances. In other areas, positional battles.
Against this background, the Russian Armed Forces continue to hit the rear and positions of the Ukrainian group, disabling reserves and military equipment. In Zaporozhye, a precision strike on a hardware repair facility on the territory of the plant destroyed 10 field artillery pieces, including two M777s, four MLRS and 15 vehicles. In Kharkov, the VKS covered the production shops of the armored plant, in which there were more than 90 tanks and other armored combat vehicles for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. How many vehicles actually lost the Armed Forces of Ukraine is not reported. In the Nikolaev region, the S-300 air defense radar was destroyed.
Our fighters shot down another Su-24 front-line bomber in the Gusarovka area of the Kharkov region. Anti-aircraft gunners landed five drones, shot down two Tochka-U missiles and seven HIMARS and Alder MLRS shells.
According to the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the strikes of artillery, missiles and aviation: in the Kharkiv region more than 150 "two hundred" from the 14th and 92nd mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the Zaporozhye region and on the island of Khortytsya - more than a hundred Ukrainian military, in the Nikolaev region - more than 90 military and foreign mercenaries.
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