The Russian Armed Forces have obliterated about 400 Ukrainian surface-to-air missile systems since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported on Saturday.
"In all, the following targets have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation: 352 warplanes, 192 helicopters, 2,719 unmanned aerial vehicles, 399 surface-to-air missile systems, 7,222 tanks and other combat armored vehicles, 936 multiple rocket launchers, 3,704 field artillery guns and mortars, and also 7,737 special military motor vehicles," the spokesman said.
Russian forces destroy over 40 Ukrainian troops from two brigades in DPR
"In the Krasny Liman area, the strikes by Russian army aviation aircraft and artillery on the positions of the Ukrainian armed forces’ 111th territorial defense brigade near Torskoye and 25th airborne brigade near Terny in the Donetsk People’s Republic eliminated more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen, three combat armored combat vehicles and four motor vehicles," Konashenkov reported.
Russian aircraft down Su-27 warplane, Mi-24, Mi-8 helicopters
"Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 plane in the area of the settlement of Kamyshevka in the Donetsk People’s Republic. In addition, Ukrainian Mi-24 and Mi-8 helicopters were shot down in areas near the settlements of Selidovo and Gruzskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the spokesman added.
Konashenkov continued, that "Russian air defense capabilities shot down a Ukrainian Air Force Mi-8 helicopter in the area of the settlement of Kirovo in the Donetsk People’s Republic."
Russian air defense systems also intercepted 15 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in areas near the settlements of Yegorovka, Yelenovka, Kirillovka, Volodino, Artyomovsk and Olginka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Kolomiychikha in the Lugansk People’s Republic, Novaya Zburyevka in the Kherson Region and Pologi in the Zaporozhye Region, the general added.
Russian forces strike 53 Ukrainian artillery sites in past day
"Russian missile troops and artillery struck the following targets: the command post of the Ukrainian army’s 65th mechanized brigade near the settlement of Lezhino and a missile/artillery armament depot in the area of the settlement of Novosyolovka in the Zaporozhye Region, and also 53 artillery units at firing positions, manpower and military hardware in 92 areas," Konashenkov reported.
Russian forces strike two Ukrainian army brigades in Kharkov Region
"In the Kupyansk direction, artillery fire struck manpower and military equipment of units of the Ukrainian army’s 14th mechanized brigade in the area of the settlement of Petropavlovka and 92nd mechanized brigade near the community of Krakhmalnoye in the Kharkov Region," the spokesman said.
Russian forces eliminated as many as 50 Ukrainian troops, four combat armored vehicles and two pickup trucks, the general specified.
Pentagon heavily censors DTRA report on activities in Ukraine - top brass
Pentagon heavily censors DTRA report on activities in Ukraine - top brass Chemical and Biological Protection Force Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov also pointed out that an expanded version of this report became available to the Russian Defense Ministry.
The Pentagon has heavily censored a report of the US Defense Department's Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) on the Ukraine activities, Chief of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Force Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov said on Saturday.
"Earlier, we cited a DTRA report on activities in Ukraine published by an American nongovernmental organization. The Pentagon heavily censored the document, completely deleting about 80% of the information," Kirillov said.
He also pointed out that an expanded version of this report became available to the Russian Defense Ministry. This version disclosed the names, positions of experts and heads of biological projects, a list of laboratories involved, as well as facts confirming exercises and training with agents of particularly dangerous infections.
"According to the document, the executors of military biological programs are the Ukrainian Mechnikov Anti-Plague Research Institute, the Institute of Veterinary Medicine, and the Lvov Research Institute of Epidemiology and Hygiene," Kirillov stressed.
According to the top brass, the report contained information on three Pentagon contractors, personal data on thirty lab employees and seven executives from the US Defense Department. The published documents supplement and confirm information obtained by Russia during the special military operation in Ukraine.
Kiev regime ready to surrender Artyomovsk — Akhmat unit commander
The Kiev regime is getting ready to surrender Artyomovsk (called Bakhmut in Ukraine), the hottest spot on the entire frontline, commander of the Akhmat commando unit and Deputy Commander of the 2nd Army Corps of LPR People’s Militia Apty Alaudinov said on Friday.
"Right now, the hottest spot on our front is Bakhmut where our units are doing very well.... [The Kiev regime] perfectly understands that [its troops] are being pushed out of there and will be definitely thrown out and, naturally, they are getting ready and preparing residents that they will lose this city," he told the Rossiya-1 TV channel.
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According to him, the hopeless situation of the Ukrainian units is confirmed by the Kiev regime's rhetoric that Artyomovsk is "meaningless to them." They used the same approach when they surrendered Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Rubezhnoye and other cities, Alaudinov pointed out.
Earlier, the DPR and LPR repeatedly reported that the Ukrainian army was redeploying supplementary forces to the Artyomovsk front with Ukrainian troops suffering substantial losses there.
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