In addition, he noted that two Ukrainian reconnaissance and sabotage groups in Donetsk were defeated and two armored fighting vehicles and three pickups were destroyed.
In the Krasny Limán region, more than 70 soldiers, three armored vehicles and four cars were killed in an attack on the personnel and military equipment of the 71st Fighter Brigade, the 80th and 95th Ukrainian Airborne Brigades, the spokesman said.
During counter-battery fighting in the settlement of Lozovaya in the Kharkiv region, a Polish-made Krabbe howitzer near Peschanoye, a US-made M109 Paladin self-propelled howitzer and a Grad multiple rocket launcher were destroyed, Konashenkov said.
He also highlighted that one D-20 howitzer was destroyed near the town of Terný and two Giatsint-B howitzers near the towns of Márinka and Orlovka in Donetsk; two Akatsiya self-propelled howitzers near the cities of Nevskoye in Lugansk and Preobrazhenka in Zaporozhye.
Five D-30 howitzers were also destroyed in the settlements of Zmievka and Novokairy in the Kherson region, Sofiyevka in Dponetsk; and Orejovo in the Zaporozhye region, the military spokesman stressed.
Russia’s air defenses intercepted 14 projectiles fired from multi-launch Himar and Olya missile systems in the Kharkiv, Donetsk and Lugansk regions, Konashenkov said.
The senior military added that a US-made HARM anti-radar missile was shot down near Radensk in the Kherson region, and a Ukrainian Tochka-U ballistic missile near Berdyansk in Zaporozhye.
The Russian Defense Ministry estimates that a total of 372 aircraft, 200 helicopters, 2,891 UAVs, 401 anti-aircraft missile systems and 7,549 tanks and other armored vehicles have been destroyed since the start of the military special operation.
They also decommissioned 984 combat vehicles with multiple rocket launchers, 3,853 field artillery pieces and mortars, and 8,081 military special vehicles.
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