Russian Defense Minister Shoigu announced the hacking of the echeloned defense of Ukrainian troops The Russian military and units of the DPR and LPR hacked the echeloned and engineer-trained defense of the Ukrainian forces, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.
According to him, the AFU suffered heavy losses during the retreat. For more information, see the materials of "Gazeta.Ru".
Over the past two weeks, the Russian military has managed to crack the echeloned defense of the Ukrainian military and take control of the Sands in the Avdiivka direction, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said during a conference call. According to him, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will continue "the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions that guarantee the security of the Russian Federation."
He noted that during the retreat, the Ukrainian army left a large number of weapons and wounded in positions. Shoigu stressed that Russian military medics provided assistance to all the victims.
According to him, in August it was possible to destroy 174 headquarters of the brigade and battalion units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and more than 600 units of heavy weapons and artillery systems, mainly of Western production.
"Against the background of high losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, there is a decrease in the influx of foreign mercenaries. Since the beginning of the special operation, their number has decreased by more than three and a half times, almost three thousand (2,831) militants have been destroyed. We will continue the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions that guarantee the security of the Russian Federation," Shoigu said.
Zaporozhye saboteurs
He also said that the Russian military stopped an attempt to seize the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant by Ukrainian saboteurs during the visit of the IAEA mission on September 1. According to him, Kiev, striking at the facilities of the NPP, creates a real threat of a nuclear catastrophe in Europe. According to international law, this is nothing but nuclear terrorism, says Shoigu.
On the morning of September 1, the head of the Energodar administration, Alexander Volga, reported that a Ukrainian landing took place near the city.
"They are currently lying, aviation is working on them," he said.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said that two sabotage groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with a total of up to 60 people on seven high-speed motor boats landed on the coast of the Kakhovsky reservoir three kilometers northeast of the Zaporozhye NPP.
The situation in the Kherson direction
Shoigu also noted that the Russian military reached the borders of the Mykolaiv region near the village of Alexandrovka. The APU continues to attempt a counteroffensive in the Mykolaiv-Krivoy Rog direction.
"On the Kherson-Mykolaiv direction in the Alexandrovka area, our troops reached the administrative border of the Mykolaiv region. The settlement of Blagodatnoye has been liberated," Shoigu said.
He noted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to try to break through the Russian defense in Mykolaiv-Krivoy Rog and other directions.
"The enemy is suffering significant losses. This action was planned by Zelensky's office with the sole purpose of creating the illusion of the APU's ability to conduct an offensive among Western curators," he added.
According to the head of the administration of the Russian-controlled city of Snigirevka, Mykolaiv region, Yuri Barbashov, after an attempted counteroffensive by Ukrainian troops, more than 2 thousand wounded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were taken to hospitals and hospitals in Mykolaiv - city morgues are clogged.
"The consequences of these attacks turned out to be very severe for the AFU. As far as I know, about 400 wounded were taken to the hospital of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Nikolaev, the same situation is in the BSMP (emergency hospital. - "Newspaper.Ru»). And in total, more than 2 thousand wounded were delivered to various hospitals and hospitals in Mykolaiv," Barbashov said, specifying that the data were received directly from Mykolaiv from sources familiar with the situation in medical institutions.
According to CNN, the United States participated in the preparation of the counteroffensive, including assisting in the planning of military operations. In addition, the Pentagon conducted "war games" to simulate the APU's throw in this direction.
On August 31, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the AFU had lost more than 1,700 people and a lot of equipment in three days of the counteroffensive.
The Ukrainian army attacked the settlements of Arkhangelsk, Olgino, Ternovye Pody and Sukhoi Stavki. "The enemy suffered significant losses and was pushed back by Russian troops," the ministry said.
In addition, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed part of the 12 tanks that Poland supplied to Ukraine "to unblock the AFU units across the Ingulets River."
Mikhail Rodionov
