MOSCOW (SANA)
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the special military operation resulted in the elimination of about 24 Ukrainian military personnel in the past 545 hours, in addition to the destruction of ammunition depots and the downing of 4 drones.
The ministry reported in its daily report that the forces of the Russian (West) group in the direction of Kobyansk were able, with their artillery fire and warplanes, to inflict heavy losses on the enemy in equipment and personnel, in the population centers of Preshotrafnivoye, Timkovka and Dvorichnaya in the Kharkov region, as well as in Novoselovskye and Stelmakhovka in the Republic of Lugansk, and attempts to penetrate by two Ukrainian reconnaissance and sabotage groups were repelled in the Lyman Pervy and Berystov regions of the Kharkov region, during which the enemy lost more than 30 military, an armored car and two pickups, in addition to the destruction of Ammunition depots in the Kharkov and Cherniev districts.
The ministry said that the fire of Russian troops in the direction of Krasno-Limansky destroyed enemy positions in many areas, during which 65 people were killed, and many Ukrainian artillery and military vehicles were destroyed.
In the direction of Donetsk, the forces of the South group killed up to 340 enemy troops, destroyed three armoured combat vehicles and two vehicles, as well as a Polish-made Crab cannon, and destroyed in the residential posts of Gyuraevka and Kramatorsk depots of ammunition and hostile weapons.
In the southern directions of Donetsk and Zaporozhye, the forces of the Eastern Group targeted with artillery and aviation fire the Ukrainian troop positions in Novondrievka, Novodanilovka, Chervonyye and Vodianoye, and the enemy there suffered more than 100 deaths and four vehicles, while in the Novoauspynfskoye region an American radar station was destroyed, and in the town of Stepnoye a hostile ammunition depot was destroyed.
According to the report, in the direction of Kherson, up to 10 Ukrainian soldiers were eliminated, three pickup trucks were destroyed, as well as a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery base, and warplanes as well as Russian army artillery hit the emplacements of 89 Ukrainian artillery units in 156 regions.
According to the ministry, the command and observation posts of units of the 24th and 65th Brigades of the Ukrainian forces were bombed and destroyed in the town of Toritsk in the Donetsk People's Republic and the village of Novondrivaca in the Zaporozhye region, and in the city of Bogodokhov in the Kharkov province, the temporary deployment point of foreign mercenaries was targeted.
According to the report, Russian air defense systems intercepted three Storm Shadow cruise missiles and six Himars rocket-propelled grenades, and four Ukrainian air drones were destroyed in the population centers of Govtnevoye in the Kharkov region, Kobane in the Zaporozhye province and the town of Slavyanoy in the Donetsk People's Republic.
According to the report, since the start of the special military operation, 429 warplanes, 235 helicopters, 4357,424 drones, 9322 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1100,4924 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, as well as 10506,<> rocket launcher vehicles, <>,<> pieces of field guns and mortars, and <>,<> pieces of special military vehicles of the Ukrainian forces have been destroyed.
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