Moscow, 18.10. (Prensa Latina) Russia today attacked Ukraine’s power systems, ammunition arsenals and foreign-made weapons with high-precision weapons, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov reported.
The military spokesman said Tuesday, in his usual press intervention, that Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian space communications station in the Odessa region and attacked three radar stations and a surface-to-air missile launcher in Donetsk. Russian troops shot down the command post of the combined Dnieper grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Iskra complex radar repair shops near the city of Zaporozhye, he said.
Konashenkov also noted that the Russian units took the town of Gorobyovka in the Kharkov region as part of their offensive on Kupiansk, defeating the forces of the 1st Operational Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine.
In addition, near the settlement of Kislovka in the Kharkov region, they foiled an attempted attack by a tactical group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reinforced with tanks, the spokesman said.
Konashenkov pointed out that Russian troops again prevented Ukrainian troops from crossing the Zherebets River towards Krasny Liman, and 46 Ukrainian soldiers, eight armored vehicles and two trucks with large-caliber machine guns were killed in the fighting.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian units on the front line from Nikolayev to Krivoy Rog tried to break through the defenses of Russian troops in the direction of the town of Bruskinskoye in the Kherson region, but the enemy attack was repelled, the military spokesman said.
According to Konashenkov, the Russian artillerymen attacked the positions of the Ukrainian troops and managed to scatter them and return them to their starting positions.
Meanwhile, Russian units destroyed two Ukrainian artillery batteries in the Kherson region and a platoon of Himars highly mobile multiple rocket launchers in Donetsk, sources said.
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