Russian Defense Ministry: Up to 260 Ukrainian militants and foreign mercenaries destroyed in Donetsk direction in a day
A general overview of the events in the special operation zone confirms the absence of significant offensive operations over the past day on both sides of the line of contact. Russian troops continue to grind significant enemy forces, the greatest losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as before, are in the west of the Donetsk People's Republic.
In today's report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, it is reported that up to 260 Ukrainian militants and foreign mercenaries were destroyed in the Donetsk direction. In addition, artillery fire and actions aviation Four infantry fighting vehicles and the same number of armored personnel carriers, eight units of armored vehicles were knocked out at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a D-30 howitzer was covered.
In the area of the village of Novomikhailovka and the city of Ugledar in the occupied territory of the DPR, the Vostok military formations of the Russian Armed Forces destroyed two more Soviet-made howitzers D-30 and D-20. The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in manpower amounted to 35 militants.
On the Kherson sector of the front, our artillerymen suppressed the work of the Ukrainian self-propelled howitzer "Acacia" at the forefront and hit a significant number of civilian vehicles converted for combat use - sixteen units. In addition, on the right bank of the Dnieper, almost opposite Nova Kakhovka, near the village of Otradnokamenka, in the bend of the Kozak (Kazak) river, a warehouse with fuel and lubricants of the 126th territorial defense brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was covered.
In the Krasno-Limansky direction, as a result of assault actions by the fighters of the "Center" group, with the support of artillery and aviation, in the area of the village of Chervonaya Dibrova west of Mikhailovka in the LPR, up to 85 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, three pickup trucks, a D-20 howitzer and self-propelled guns "Gvozdika" were destroyed ".
In the air, there was no great activity of the Ukrainian military During the day, our anti-aircraft gunners intercepted and shot down three HIMARS missiles and the same drones, all in the Kherson region.
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