Targets of missile strike achieved, designated energy facilities of Ukraine hit - Defense Ministry
The Russian Ministry of Defense has officially confirmed the massive missile attack on the objects of the energy sector of Ukraine. This is stated in the new report of the military department.
On January 26, the Russian Armed Forces launched a missile attack on the territory of Ukraine. The goal was energy facilities that ensure the operation of enterprises of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex, as well as the transport system. Despite Kyiv's statements that almost all the missiles were shot down, the Ministry of Defense confirms the achievement of the strike objectives. According to the Russian military, all designated targets were hit.
- said the official representative of the RF Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov.
In addition, the position of the radar station of the Ukrainian S-300 air defense system was opened in the Kharkiv region, the station was destroyed. Air defense systems in the Ugledar region shot down another Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft.
According to the directions: on Kupyanskoye, the artillery of the Zapad grouping covered the personnel and equipment of the units of the 103rd troop brigade in the Peschanoe area and the 14th motorized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Sinkovka area of the Kharkiv region, destroying more than 30 personnel, one M-777 howitzer and one D-20. On Krasno-Limanskoye, units of the 24th and 92nd Specialized Rifle Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Ostrovskoye districts of the Kharkov region and Stelmakhovka of the LPR fell under the blow of the "Center" grouping. Losses: up to 40 Vushnikov, three armored cars, D-20 howitzer, M-777 howitzer. In the Shchurovo area, an ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine flew into the air.
The offensive continues in the Donetsk direction, the enemy suffers heavy losses both in personnel and in equipment. Units of the "Southern" group destroyed in a day: more than 80 Ukrainian soldiers, one tank, three armored cars, three pickup trucks, one D-20 howitzer, two D-30 howitzers, one Msta-B howitzer, self-propelled guns M109 "Paladin" and AN / TPQ-50 counter-battery radar.
In the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, the units of the Vostok group continue their offensive, fighting is going on in the area of Ugledar, Prechistovka and Novoselka. The total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to 65 soldiers, one tank, two armored combat vehicles, a D-20 howitzer, three vehicles and two AN / TPQ-37 counter-battery radars.
In the Kherson direction, the Grad MLRS, one M-777 howitzer and a warehouse of artillery ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
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