Moscow-SANA

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that Russian forces destroyed during the past 24 hours cannons, ammunition depots and missiles of the Ukrainian regime forces, shot down 10 drones, in addition to eliminating hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers and foreign mercenaries.

The ministry said in its daily report that its forces targeted last night deployment points and training centers for Ukrainian forces, warehouses of ammunition, weapons and foreign-made equipment, with high-precision weapons launched from the sea, where they achieved their goal, and all sites were hit, and the supply, training and formation of reserves for Ukrainian forces in combat zones were disrupted.

Three Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups were eliminated, a total of 65 Ukrainian soldiers were killed on the Kopyansk axis, and about 85 Ukrainian soldiers were eliminated on the Krasny-Liman axis, the ministry said.

The ministry pointed to the continuation of offensive operations in the western part of the city of Artiomovsk, the elimination of 70 Ukrainian soldiers and foreign mercenaries there, in addition to the killing of 130 other soldiers on the Donetsk axis, up to 120 Ukrainian soldiers on the southern Donetsk and Zaporozhye axes, and 30 soldiers on the Kherson axis.

According to the ministry, the equipment destroyed within a day on the aforementioned axes included 3 self-propelled guns "Gvozdica", a "Masta-B" howitzer, 2 D-30 howitzers, a "D-20" howitzer, a British-made "118" howitzer, two US-made anti-battery radars, and 76 Ukrainian artillery units were hit at firing sites and military forces and equipment in 103 regions.

According to the ministry, a number of ammunition, rocket and artillery depots in Kharkov and Donetsk and a fuel storage facility in the Lvov province were destroyed, 7 shells from the Himars rocket launcher were intercepted, and 10 Ukrainian drones were shot down.

According to the ministry, since the beginning of the special military operation, 428 aircraft, 234 helicopters, 4218,423 drones, 9227 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1100,4852 tanks and other armored vehicles, 10304,<> rocket launchers, <>,<> pieces of field artillery and mortars, and <>,<> special military vehicles have been destroyed.

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