Russian army destroys Ukrainian military aerodromes, fuel storage facilities

Russian Army units have destroyed the infrastructure of military aerodromes and fuel storage facilities used in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Russian Defence Minis­try has reported.

“Operational-tactical aviation, combat unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces’ group of forces inflicted damage on infra­structure of military airfields, fuel storage facilities used in the interests of the Ukrainian armed forces, as well as troops and equipment of the Ukrainian armed groups in 153 areas,” the report said.

Ukraine’s armed forces lost up to 515 troops, a tank and six armored fighting vehicles, in the responsibili­ty area of Russia’s Battlegroup Cen­ter in 24 hours, the ministry said.

“Units of Battlegroup Center continued active advance actions. Damage was inflicted on troops and equipment of two mechanised, two jaeger brigades, an assault regiment of the Ukrainian army, and an assault brigade Lyut of Ukraine’s National police near settlements of Dzerzhinsk, Druzhba, Lysovka, Nadezhdinka, Shevchenko, Uspe­novka, Andreyevka, and Kotlino of the Donetsk People’s Republic. The enemy lost up to 515 troops, a tank, six armored fighting vehicles, ten cars, and six field branch artillery weapons, one of them produced by a NATO country,” the report said.

“Damage was inflicted on troops and equipment of five mecha­nized and a tank brigades of the Ukrainian army near settlements of Kondrashovka, Kolodeznoye, Kislovka, Monachinovka of the Kharkov Region and Makeyevka of the Lugansk People’s Republic. The enemy lost up to 295 troops, three armored fighting vehicles, 11 cars, a multiple-launch rocket system, four field branch artillery weapons. Two ammunition depots and an electronic warfare station were eliminated,” the ministry said.

“The units of Battlegroup South took more favorable positions. Damage was inflicted on formations of two mechanised brigades of the Ukrainian army and two territorial defense brigades near settlements of Ulakly, Belogorovka, Verkhneka­menskoye and Chasov Yar of the Donetsk People’s Republic.

The Ukrainian army lost up to 200 troops, two cars, a multi­ple-launch rocket system, and seven field branch artillery weapons, two of which were produced by NATO countries. Four ammunition depots were destroyed,” the report said.

In all, the Russian forces have destroyed 652 Ukrainian warplanes, 283 helicopters, 42,139 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft mis­sile systems, 20,997 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,513 multiple rocket launchers, 21,129 field artillery guns and mortars, and 31,127 special military motor vehicles since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, the ministry added.

Credit: Russian News Agency

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