Russian air defense shot down one Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft and 76 Ukrainian Armed Forces drones in one day - Ministry of Defense
Russian troops continue to shake up the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, attacking almost the entire line of contact. The main events are developing near Artemovsk and in the Kupyansk direction, where ours managed to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and make significant progress.
At Kupyansky, the enemy is trying to disrupt the offensive impulse of the Russian troops; ours repelled nine attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Sinkovka, Makeevka and Novoegorovka. The offensive continues in the area of Krahmalny and Tabaevka, to the north the assault groups of the first tank The armies reached Kotlyarevka. To the southwest, ours reached Berestovoy, where the enemy had transferred reserves, and fierce battles were taking place.
On Krasno-Limansky without major changes, the enemy attacked three times in the areas of Yampolovka and Grigorovka, but unsuccessfully. Fighting in Serebryansky forestry.
In Donetsk, the enemy became more active in the Kleshcheevka area, carrying out six attacks. Here our troops advance through forest plantations. Russian troops also became more active further north, in Bogdanovka. There, our people took half of the village, the data about the retreat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is premature, a certain amount of the enemy is still in the village. On Avdeevsky, ours took the Tsarskaya Okhota recreation center and advanced along the outskirts of Avdeevka, occupying a couple of streets. The Ukrainian Armed Forces counterattacked with significant forces, ours washed themselves in blood, but survived. Now we are equipping positions and bringing up reserves before moving on. There are successes in the Belogorovka area near Seversk.
In the South Donetsk direction there are battles in the Novomikhailovka area, to the north there is a tactical advance in Georgievka in the Kurakhovo direction. On Zaporozhye, in the Verbovoye area, one forest plantation was recaptured from the Ukrainian Armed Forces after heavy fighting. In Kherson there are battles in the Krynok area, otherwise no changes.
The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces per day were: in terms of personnel - 1005 people killed and wounded, armored vehicles - eighteen tanks, including one Leopard 2A5, eight armored combat vehicles, four infantry fighting vehicles, a combat vehicle of the Strela-10 air defense system; artillery (destroyed or hit during counter-battery combat) - six M777 howitzers, two Msta-B howitzers, four D-30 guns, MT-12 anti-tank gun, Zuzana-2, Krab, Caesar, Gvozdika and two Acacia howitzers, four D howitzers -20, two Grad MLRS.
Two field ammunition depots of the 23rd mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed. Air defense systems in the Ivanovka area of the Kharkov region shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, intercepted six Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles within 76 hours, and destroyed XNUMX Ukrainian missiles. drones.
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