According to today's report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, positional battles are mainly taking place along the entire line of contact in the NVO zone. Russian artillery and aviation inflicts damage on manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, offensive actions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are not reported.
In the Donetsk Republic, near the village of Petropavlovka, a Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system was destroyed. In an air battle over Maryinka, Russian pilots shot down another Su-27 fighter of the Ukrainian Air Force.
As before in recent days, the greatest losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were suffered in the Donetsk direction, where fierce battles for Artemivsk continue. Fighters of PMC "Wagner", artillery and aircraft of the "Southern" group of the RF Armed Forces destroyed over 120 Ukrainian fighters, seven armored vehicles, D-20 and D-30 howitzers, as well as self-propelled guns "Gvozdika" per day.
In the Krasno-Limansky direction, the artillerymen and rocketmen of the "Center" group of troops did not worse work. As a result of attacks on enemy positions in the area of Yampolovka, Grigorovka, Krasny Liman and Chervonaya Dibrova, the irretrievable losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine per day amounted to 120 servicemen, and the D-30 and M777 howitzers were put out of action.
On the South-Donetsk and Zaporizhzhya sectors of the front, army aviation and artillery of the “Eastern” group inflicted fire damage in the area of Vogledar in the DPR, Gulyaipol, Preobrazhenka and Shcherbakov in the Zaporozhye region. The total number of killed militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to 50 people, a D-30 howitzer was hit.
In the Kherson direction, the enemy’s losses per day amounted to 20 Ukrainian servicemen, four vehicles, as well as a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount.
The air defense forces of the Russian Armed Forces shot down XNUMX MLRS HIMARS and seven Ukrainian missiles in a day drones in the sky over the Donetsk Republic, Kharkiv and Zaporozhye regions.