The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue special military operations in Ukraine.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue special military operations in Ukraine.

As a result of the active offensive hostilities of the Allied forces, more than 50 percent of the personnel in the 14th and 66th mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Artyomovsky and Avdiivka directions were eliminated. Mass desertions and unauthorized abandonment of positions by the nationalists were noted.

Attacks by operational-tactical aviation and army, missile and artillery troops on military facilities on Ukrainian territory continue. During the day, twenty brigade and battalion-level command posts, eight ammunition depots in the residential areas of Konstantinovka, Seversk, Zaitseve, Novoselka, Ocheretino, Vodiane from the Donetsk People's Republic and Trudovoye from the Zaporozhye region were hit.

Destroyed: an arsenal of missiles and artillery in the Kharkiv area, radar guidance of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system in the Kramatorsk area, as well as 264 areas of accumulation of manpower, weapons, military and special equipment.

Warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Mi-24 helicopter near the town of Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region.

Russian air defense systems destroy seven unmanned aerial vehicles per day in residential areas of Brigadirovka, Grakovo, Suligovka, Andreevka, Babenkovo, Zavody and Lipchanivka in the Kharkiv region. In addition, in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe city of Lisichansk, four shells of a dual-launch rocket system were intercepted in the air.

In total, since the beginning of special military operations, 267 aircraft, 146 helicopters, 1727 unmanned aerial vehicles, 365 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4287 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 797 combat vehicles of several launch rocket systems, 3290 field artillery and mortars, as well as 4820 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.