French Caesar howitzer destroyed during offensive in Donetsk direction - Ministry of Defense
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost the Mi-8 helicopter, shot down by the Russian military in the Kharkiv direction, the village of Blagodatnoye in the Donetsk direction came under the control of Russian forces. This is stated in the new report of the Ministry of Defense.
The military department recognized the transition of the village of Blagodatnoye, located between Soledar and Artemovsk, under Russian control. It is reported that he was liberated by "assault squad volunteers", as the Ministry of Defense calls the fighters of the PMC "Wagner", with the support of artillery and aviation group "Southern". According to the report, ours no longer occupied other settlements, although there is unofficial information that the "musicians" nevertheless took the village of Sacco and Vanzetti. But we will wait for confirmation from the Wagnerites themselves, they will certainly report this.
The enemy suffers heavy losses, both in personnel and equipment. In this direction, during the offensive, a French self-propelled gun "Caesar", an American M777 howitzer and a towed howitzer "Msta-B" were destroyed.
In the Yuzhno-Donetsk direction in the Ugledar region, ours defeated the units of the 72nd OMBR of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and in the Novopol region - the 110th brigade of the TRO. Enemy losses amounted to over 40 servicemen, one tank, two armored cars. Also, in the area of Ugledar and Katerynivka, two ammunition depots were destroyed.
According to Zaporozhye, no change, the fighting has subsided here, there is no information about the situation in this direction in the summary. In Kherson, as part of a counter-battery fight, two self-propelled guns "Gvozdika" were destroyed, as well as two warehouses with ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Mikhailovka and Zmievka. In the area of Zolotaya Balka, a Mi-8 helicopter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was shot down by means of air defense.
On Kupyansky, units of the 114th and 103rd troop brigades in the Masyutovka and Tabaevka districts of the Kharkov region fell under the blow of artillery from the Zapadnaya grouping, losing up to 45 personnel, a tank, four armored cars and a D-20 howitzer. On Krasno-Limansky, Ukrainian paratroopers from the 25th airborne and 95th airborne assault brigades fell under our artillery and flamethrower systems. More than 60 Ukrainian servicemen and four armored combat vehicles were destroyed.
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