Russian forces delivered strikes by seaborne and airborne precision weapons against Ukrainian depots storing foreign-made ammunition, armaments and equipment, including drones, disrupting the enemy’s supplies in the combat area, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported on Friday.

“Last night, Russian forces delivered multiple strikes by seaborne and airborne long-range precision weapons against depots storing foreign-made ammunition, armaments and military equipment, including unmanned aerial vehicles. All the designated targets were hit. The strikes disrupted the supplies of Ukrainian troops in the areas of combat operations,” the spokesman said.

Russian forces neutralized two Ukrainian subversive groups and destroyed over 30 enemy troops in the Kupyansk area in the past day, Konashenkov reported.

“In the Kupyansk direction, operational/tactical and army aviation and artillery of the western battlegroup struck the Ukrainian army units in areas near the settlements of Novomlynsk, Molchanovo and Berestovoye in the Kharkov Region and Rozovka in the Lugansk People’s Republic. In areas near the settlements of Olshana in the Kharkov Region and Novosyolovskoye in the Lugansk People’s Republic, the activity of two Ukrainian subversive and reconnaissance groups was thwarted,” the spokesman said.

Over 30 Ukrainian personnel, three motor vehicles, an Uragan multiple rocket launcher and two D-30 howitzers were destroyed in that direction in the past 24 hours, the general reported.

Russian combat aircraft, artillery and heavy flamethrowers destroyed over 50 Ukrainian troops and neutralized an enemy subversive group in the Krasny Liman area over the past day, Konashenkov reported.

“In the Krasny Liman direction, aircraft, artillery and heavy flamethrower systems from the battlegroup Center inflicted damage on the enemy units in areas near the settlements of Nevskoye in the Lugansk People’s Republic, Yampolovka and Grigorovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic. Near the settlement of Chervonaya Dibrova in the Lugansk People’s Republic, the activity of a Ukrainian subversive and reconnaissance group was thwarted,” the spokesman said.

In all, Russian forces destroyed over 50 Ukrainian personnel, an infantry fighting vehicle, two motor vehicles, two Gvozdika motorized artillery systems in that direction in the past 24 hours, and also a D-20 howitzer of the enemy’s mechanized brigade in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the general reported.

In addition, Russian forces destroyed a US-made AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery radar near Serebryanka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, he said.

Russian forces destroyed over 400 Ukrainian troops in battles in the Donetsk area over the past day, Konashenkov reported.

“As many as 410 Ukrainian personnel, four tanks, eight infantry fighting vehicles, seven motor vehicles, a US-made M777 artillery system and a Msta-B howitzer were destroyed in the battles in the past 24 hours,” the spokesman said.

Near the settlement of Krasnogorovka, an ammunition depot of the Ukrainian army’s 79th air assault brigade was obliterated, the general reported.

Source: Agencies