Russian troops repel a number of Ukrainian attacks during last 24 hours, Defense Ministry announces

Moscow, SANA-The Russian Aerospace Forces Tuesday launched group strikes by long-range precision air-based weapons against hostile locations, as well as a foreign-made ammunition and weapons depot.

The Russian Defense Ministry said in its daily report that all the assigned targets have been engaged. The goal of the strike has been achieved.

Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian troops continued to attempt to carry out offensive operations in South Donetsk direction, as well as near Artyomovsk.

In the Vremevka salient, the Kiev regime launched an offensive by the units hastily formed from the remnants of the Ukrainian brigades which had previously suffered heavy losses.

Three attacks by Ukrainian units reinforced with tanks and armoured fighting vehicles were repelled in the area of Makarovka (Donetsk People’s Republic) over the past 24 hours.

All the attacks were repelled by courageous and decisive actions of Vostok Group of Forces, air strikes and artillery fire. Of the ten AFU armoured personnel carriers involved in the attacks, eight were eliminated. Eight of ten AFU armoured personnel carriers involved in the attacks were eliminated.

Total losses in those areas during the day were up to 275 Ukrainian troops, four tanks, fifteen armoured fighting vehicles, eight vehicles, and an Msta-B howitzer.

Up to 350 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, and six motor vehicles were neutralised in the fighting.

In addition, actions of one sabotage and reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been thwarted near Timkovka (Kharkov region).

More than 35 Ukrainian servicemen, one armoured personnel carrier, one pick-up truck, and one D-20 howitzer have been destroyed during the day.

In Kherson direction, up to 30 Ukrainian troops, three motor vehicles, one Msta-B howitzer, and one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer have been neutralised over the past 24 hours.

In addition, six Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been destroyed in the areas of Staromlynovka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Rabotino (Zaporozhye region), Korsunka (Kherson region), Pshenichnoye and Novokrasnyanka (Lugansk People’s Republic).

In total, 442 airplanes and 238 helicopters, 4,585 unmanned aerial vehicles, 426 air defence missile systems, 9,939 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 1,122 combat vehicles equipped with MRLS, 5,100 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 10,927 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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