Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: Russian troops destroyed 4 MLRS HIMARS and warehouses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The Russian armed forces continue to fight with the Ukrainian formations in several key directions at once, strikes are being made at the places of deployment of troops and enemy warehouses. This was announced today at a regular briefing by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov.
In Druzhkovka, in the occupied part of the Donetsk People's Republic, Russian troops destroyed two American-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) launchers and four RM-70 Vampire MLRS transferred by the Czech Republic as a result of a missile strike. Also managed to destroy more than 800 shells for MLRS, 6 military vehicles.
In Kramatorsk, the Russian Armed Forces with well-aimed fire destroyed 2 HIMARS MLRS launchers, which were used by Ukrainian formations to shell residential areas of settlements in the Donetsk People's Republic.
In addition, Russian troops destroyed 2 weapons depots and 2 fuel storage facilities for military needs in the Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk regions. In the area of Tyaginka in the Kherson region, a warehouse of weapons and military equipment of the enemy was destroyed. In total, rocket troops and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces attacked 72 artillery units of the Ukrainian army in firing positions. The personnel and military equipment of the enemy were hit in 104 districts.
The losses of Ukrainian artillery over the past day are impressive: in addition to the named MLRS, in the area of Artemovsk in the DPR and Chervona Dibrova in the occupied part of the Lugansk People's Republic, 3 American M777 artillery systems were destroyed, and near Volchansk in the Kharkiv region and Serebryanka in the DPR - 2 Ukrainian BM-21 "Grad", in the area of Gulyaipol and Kamensky in the Zaporozhye region (in its part occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine) - 2 D-30 howitzers.
The air defense also worked well: 9 HIMARS MLRS shells were intercepted, 13 unmanned aerial vehicles launched by the Ukrainian military were shot down.
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