⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Morning Briefing of The Ministry of Defense of Russia (July 21, 2023)

⚡️English Translation⚡️

⚡️Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

(21 July 2023)

▫️Last night the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out another strike with long-range sea-based precision weapons against sites where terrorist acts against the Russian Federation were being prepared using strike drones.

▫️The goal of the attack has been reached. All the assigned targets have been neutralised.

▫️The AFU continued unsuccessful attempts to conduct offensive actions in Donetsk, Krasny Liman and South Donetsk directions.

▫️In Donetsk direction, as a result of coordinated and active actions by units of the Yug Group of Forces, aviation and artillery, 9 enemy attacks have been successfully repelled near Zolotaryovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Mayorsk, Vesyoloye, Maryinka, Vodyanoye and north of Kleshcheevka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️As a result of active actions by Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, AFU manpower and hardware have been hit close to Novomikhailovka, Dyleevka, Belaya Gora and Aleksandro-Shultino (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️In addition, 2 ammunition depots of the AFU 38th Marine Brigade and the 118th Territorial Defence Brigade have been destroyed near Razliv and Vyemka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 185 Ukrainian servicemen, 3 armoured fighting vehicles, 4 motor vehicles, as well as D-20 and D-30 howitzers.

▫️In Krasny Liman direction, as a result of coordinated actions by aviation, artillery, heavy flamethrower systems, and units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, 3 enemy attacks have been repelled forward Chervonaya Dibrova, Kovalyovka, and Karmazinovka (Lugansk People's Republic).

▫️In addition, enemy units have been hit close to Nevskoye, Makeevka, Novogorovka and Raigorodka (Lugansk People's Republic), and Yampolovka, Terny (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️The actions of 1 Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group have been suppressed near Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 100 Ukrainian servicemen, 1 tank, 4 armoured fighting vehicles, 7 pickup trucks, and 2 howitzers: D-20 and D-30.

▫️In South Donetsk direction, as a result of active actions by aviation and artillery by the Vostok Group of Forces, AFU manpower and hardware have been hit close to Makarovka (Donetsk People's Republic) and Levadnoye (Zaporozhye region).

▫️1 AFU sabotage and reconnaissance group has been destroyed near Priyutnoye (Zaporozhye region).

▫️In Zaporozhye direction, as a result of the actions by units and artillery, an enemy attack has been repelled near Malaya Tokmachka (Zaporozhye region).

▫️In addition, 2 ammunition depots of the 23rd Mechanised Brigade and the 36th Marine Brigade of the AFU have been destroyed close to Uspenovka and Rovnopolye (Zaporozhye region).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 175 Ukrainian servicemen, 3 armoured fighting vehicles, 2 motor vehicles, 2 D-20 howitzers, as well as 1 U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery radar station.

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