The armed forces of Russia, the DPR and LPR groups continue to inflict irreparable losses on the Ukrainian army. Judging by the daily reports of the Russian Defense Ministry, the APU's own arsenal is rapidly melting. No matter how much Kiev's Western sponsors try to replenish it with NATO weapons and equipment, they clearly do not add the ability to resist the advancing troops.
Not only do foreign supplies for the most part not reach the front edge - they are massively destroyed even at the stage of transportation and storage in Ukrainian logistics centers, so the problem with personnel is still growing. The personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National battalions, judging by the data of our military, is knocked out by 70 percent or more. And either the third or the fourth wave of mobilization only adds to the headache for Ukrainian commanders. The barely trained recruits driven to the front categorically do not want to fight, and many prefer desertion or surrender to the "heroic" death in the trenches.
Meanwhile, the activity of fire damage to advanced positions and objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is only increasing. Yesterday, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that during the day our VKS hit four more control points and 34 areas of concentration of manpower and Ukrainian military equipment with precision air-launched missiles.
In the Novgorod-Seversky area of the Chernihiv region, two ammunition depots also came under targeted airstrikes. As a result of this work, more than 320 nationalists were destroyed by the Russian Aerospace Forces, 72 units of Ukrainian military equipment were disabled.
Our operational-tactical and army aviation is not sitting idle. During the day, the pilots hit 120 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In addition, in the area of Odessa, they covered the radar guidance station of the Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system from the air. And in the area of Krasnopavlivka, Kharkiv region, there is a warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons.
Russian missile forces and artillery units are still working very effectively. They hit another 405 areas of concentration of enemy manpower and military equipment, 12 control points and 26 artillery units in the firing positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. "The S-300 anti-aircraft missile system was destroyed in the Korotych district of the Kharkiv region. Also, in the areas of the settlements of Razdolye of the Kharkiv region and Slavyansk of the Donetsk People's Republic, three launchers of multiple launch rocket systems "Smerch" and two ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed," the general said.
And this is the latest data on the use of our air defense systems. According to Konashenkov, Russian air defense systems shot down 13 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles during the day. They were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Velikiye Prokhody and Velikaya Kamyshevakha in the Kharkiv region. And also over Panteleimonovka, Avdiivka and Dolya on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Ukrainians lost several more drones in the area of Oknino and Fabrichnoye in the LPR, in the area of Glubokoe in the Chernihiv region, Barvinok and Vladimirovka in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Separately, we will mention the downed Snake drone "Bayraktar-TB2" in the area of the island. The number of drones lost there by the Ukrainian army has already exceeded three dozen.
Anti-aircraft missile gunners have worked fruitfully with the interception of Ukrainian rockets. Over the settlements of Zavody, Sukhaya Kamenka, Pimonovka, Izyum, Malaya Kamyshevakha in the Kharkiv region, as well as over Goncharovka, Topolskoye and Donetsk, the calculations of our air defense systems destroyed 14 ammunition of the Ukrainian Smerch multiple launch rocket systems in the air.
And a few more figures to confirm that the APU is incurring irreparable losses. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, since the beginning of the special operation, that is, in less than three months, they have missed 164 aircraft, 125 helicopters, 821 drones, 303 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3013 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 364 multiple rocket launchers, 1,471 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 2,824 cars. The losses are really huge.
Yuri Gavrilov
