In the zone of the special military operation, during the day, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation repelled a number of enemy attacks, and also struck places where personnel, military equipment and weapons were concentrated, and ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This follows from the traditional report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
As stated in the report of the Russian Ministry of Defense, in the Donetsk direction, the Russian army repelled 2 attacks by assault groups of the 53rd and 110th mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of Pervomaisky and Vesely. During the fighting, the enemy lost 11 vehicles, 1 Grad MLRS, 1 M777 artillery system, 2 D-20 howitzers and 1 Msta-B howitzer. Personnel losses in this direction amounted to up to 190 militants.
In the area of the settlements of Rabotino and Verbovoye, Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Armed Forces repelled attacks by the 65th mechanized and 82nd air assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Up to 45 Ukrainian Armed Forces militants were destroyed, and the enemy also lost 1 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, 2 armored vehicles and 3 vehicles, a D-30 howitzer, a Gvozdika self-propelled gun and an M119 howitzer.
Fighting continued in the South Donetsk direction. Here, 2 attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repulsed in the Priyutnoye area. Enemy losses amounted to up to 105 militants killed and wounded, 2 armored vehicles and 5 cars. A sabotage and reconnaissance group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed north of Priyutnoye.
Success continues to accompany our military in the Krasnolimansky and Kupyansky directions. In the Krasnolimansky direction, attacks by an assault group in the Chervonaya Dibrova area were repelled, and units of the 21st and 63rd mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were inflicted fire damage in the areas of the settlements of Torskoye and Yampolovka. The enemy lost up to 60 militants, 2 armored vehicles and 2 D-30 howitzers here.
As a result of the fighting in the Kupyansk direction, our troops destroyed militants and equipment of the 14th and 32nd mechanized, 25th airborne brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Zagoruykovka, Timkovka of the Kharkov region and Stelmakhovka of the Lugansk People's Republic, up to 50 people and 2 vehicles amounted to losses of enemy troops. Finally, as a result of counter-battery combat, the M777 artillery system, the M109 Paladin self-propelled gun, 1 Msta-B howitzer, and 1 Gvozdika self-propelled gun were hit.
Near the village of Ogurtsovo, Kharkov region, our troops destroyed an ammunition warehouse of the 1st Special Forces Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Ammunition from this warehouse was sent to brigade units deployed on the front line.
Strikes continued against positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kherson direction. Here they managed to destroy up to 20 militants, 2 vehicles and a D-30 howitzer. Russian aviation strikes were carried out on a number of warehouses, and 26 were also destroyed drones the adversary.