Russian aviation launched a group attack against Ukrainian electronic reconnaissance centers and aircraft based at Kanatovo and Dnipro airfields, Defense Ministry spokesman General Igor Konashenkov reported today.
The military spokesman added that the aim of the coup had been achieved. In addition, Russian forces destroyed an Assault Shadow cruise missile depot in Ukraine’s Khmelnytskyi region in response to an attack by Ukrainian troops on the bridge over the Chongar Strait.
Konashenkov further reported that Russian units successfully repelled nine attacks by Ukrainian forces on the Donetsk sector of the front in the past 24 hours.
“In the Donetsk region, the Southern Group of Troops successfully repelled nine enemy raids on the Vesioloye, Artiomovsk, Avdeyevka, Pervomaiskoye and Marinka Oblasts of the Donetsk People’s Republic with their active actions over the last day,” he said.
The spokesman said more than 245 Ukrainian soldiers, an infantry fighting vehicle, seven vans and D-20 and D-30 howitzers were killed in the fighting.
In the Artiomovsk tactical zone, air and artillery strikes hit groups of personnel and military equipment of the 35th and 36th Naval Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Two ammunition depots of the 45th Artillery Brigade and the 109th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed near the settlements of Seversk and Sukhaya Balka of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Konashenkov added.
In the area south of Donetsk and in the Zaporozhye region, the Ukrainian army lost more than 170 soldiers, three tanks, three infantry vehicles, twelve armored fighting vehicles and three vehicles, the representative of the military unit said.
A Grad multiple rocket launcher, a French-made Caesar artillery unit, a US-made M777 artillery system, two Msta-B howitzers and a D-20 were also destroyed, sources said.
While in the Krasny Liman region, Russian troops repelled four attacks by Ukrainian forces, killing more than 100 soldiers and destroying an infantry fighting vehicle, two armored vehicles, three pickup trucks, an “Akatsiya” self-propelled artillery unit and a D- Howitzer. 30, he specified.
He added that Russian forces suppressed the activities of three Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in Yampolovka and Tórskoye oblasts in Donetsk and Chervonaya Dibrova in Lugansk.
In the Kherson region “during the day up to 45 Ukrainian soldiers, two vehicles, one Grad multiple rocket launcher, two self-propelled artillery units of the Akatsiya type and two self-propelled howitzers of the Gvozdika type were eliminated,” said the representative of the military unit.
Since February 24, 2022, Russia has been conducting a special military operation in eastern Ukraine which, according to President Vladimir Putin, aims to demilitarize and denazify the neighboring country and prevent attacks by the Kiev government on the republics’ civilian populations. People of Lugansk and Donetsk.