Russian troops go on the offensive in Donetsk direction - Ministry of Defense
Russian troops have gone on the offensive in the Donetsk direction, follows from the new report of the Ministry of Defense, positional battles in the rest of the direction without any major changes.
Afterwards, the days pass under the sign of an offensive near Artemovsk (Bakhmut), where Wagner PMC assault groups push through the defenses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, forcing the enemy to either retreat or die on the spot. Fights are going on both around the city and in urban areas. Literally today, information came that the “musicians” nevertheless took Kurdyumovka, where a powerful fortified area was organized by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and went to the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal. The fighting is fierce, the operation to capture Artemovsk has already been called the "Bakhmut meat grinder" because of the high losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Ministry of Defense confirmed the offensive in the Donetsk direction, but did not go into details, they only cited the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the past day. According to the military, the enemy lost more than 100 people only killed, one tank, five armored fighting vehicles and five vehicles.
In other areas: on Kupyansky, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that tried to attack in the Ivanovka region of the Kharkiv region were hit by fire, more than 30 Vushniks, two armored combat vehicles and two pickup trucks were destroyed. At Krasno-Limansky, an attempt to advance the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Chervonopopovka was thwarted. Here, the Russian gunners shot every bush, and aviation already plowed all the fields more than once. It is reported that the Vushniks lost more than 40 people "two hundredth", two infantry fighting vehicles and four vehicles.
Missile strikes deep into the territory of Ukraine were not carried out, there is no information about this, and unofficial sources are empty. Artillery, tactical and army aviation worked in the contact zone. It is reported about the destruction of the Osa-AKM air defense system in the Makeevka area, and the AN / TPQ-37 counter-battery radar in the Nikolaevka area. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, a mobile three-coordinate all-round radar "Pelikan" was destroyed, which provides target designation for air defense systems. Also in the Zaporozhye region, a RAV warehouse is covered.
Air defense systems shot down nine Ukrainian drones and intercepted two Uragan MLRS rockets.
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