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The Russian military carried out 49 group strikes against targets in Ukraine between May 18 and 24, the Russian Ministry of Defense said in its weekly briefing.
According to the ministry, the group strikes were carried out using “high-precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles [UAVs].”
“The strikes … hit the enemy military airfield infrastructure, missiles, ammunition and fuel storages and the production facilities for uncrewed surface vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles,” the ministry said. “In addition, temporary deployment areas of the AFU [Armed Forces of Ukraine] manpower, foreign mercenaries and nationalist formations as well as enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine were hit.”
The ministry also provided a summary of Russian offensive and defensive operations in different directions over the past week.
The Sever Group of Forces liberated Staritsa in the Kharkov region and continued the advance to the depth of the Ukrainian defenses, according to the ministry, which also said that the group inflicted losses on five brigades of the AFU and four territorial defense brigades.
“Twenty three counter-attacks of assault groups of the AFU were repelled close to Glubokoye, Tikhoye, Liptsi and Volchansk (Kharkov region),” the ministry said.
“The enemy losses amounted to up to 1,840 troops, six tanks, eight armored fighting vehicles, 40 motor vehicles, four Grad and Vampire MLRS [Multiple Launch Rocket System] combat vehicles as well as 37 field artillery guns,” it added.
The ministry said that the Zapad Group of Forces captured more advantageous lines and defeated units of four AFU mechanized brigades, two territorial defense brigades and one national guard brigade during the same period.
“Over the past 24 hours, 15 counter-attacks were repelled by units of four AFU brigades and one national guard brigade close to Grigorovka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Chervonaya Dibrova, Novovodyanoye and Stelmakhovka (Lugansk People’s Republic),” the ministry added.
It also revealed that Ukrainian losses in this direction amounted to 2,040 troops, two tanks, 18 armored fighting vehicles, 19 motor vehicles, two Grad MLRS combat vehicles and 32 field artillery guns, including 14 made in the West.
Meanwhile, the Yug Group of Forces have liberated three settlements of Belogorovka, Kleshcheyevka and Andreyevka in Donetsk and continued to advance to the depths of the Ukrainian defenses, according to the ministry.
The group inflicted losses on the manpower and hardware of seven AFU brigades and four territorial defense brigades, it said.
“The AFU losses amounted to up to 3,285 Ukrainian troops, seven tanks, 13 armored fighting vehicles, 46 motor vehicles, 32 field artillery guns, to include 27 Western-made,” the ministry said. “In addition, ten AFU ammunition depots were destroyed.”
From its side, the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line and defeated units of nine AFU and Ukrainian National Guard’s formations over the past week, per the ministry.
“Forty one counter-attacks launched by assault groups of eight AFU brigades were repelled close to Shumy, Netaylovo, Novokalinovo, Umanskoye, Ocheretino, Archangelskoye and Solovyovo (Donetsk People’s Republic),” the ministry said.
“During the week, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost up to 2,770 Ukrainian troops, one tank, 26 motor vehicles, 35 field artillery guns and 20 armored fighting vehicles, including four German-made Marder infantry fighting vehicles as well as five Bradley and three United States-made MaxxPro armored personnel carriers in this direction,” it added.
The ministry also said that the Vostok Group of Forces improved the tactical situation in its direction and hit manpower and hardware of several Ukrainian motorized infantry and territorial defense brigades.
Nine counter-attacks launched by AFU mechanized, territorial defense and national guard brigades were repelled near Vladimirovka, Staromayorskoye and Urozhaynoye in Donetsk over the past week, it added.
“The AFU losses amounted to up to 920 Ukrainian troops, 13 armored fighting vehicles, 39 motor vehicles and 18 field artillery guns, to include ten Western-made,” the ministry said.
Also over the past week, the Dnepr Group of Forces engaged the manpower and hardware of two marine brigades, three AFU brigades, two territorial defense formations as well as one national guard brigade, according to the ministry.
“The AFU losses amounted to up to 350 Ukrainian troops, three tanks, two armored fighting vehicles, 35 motor vehicles, two Grad MLRS launchers as well as 24 field artillery guns, including seven U.S.-made M777 howitzers and one United Kingdom-made FH-70 towed howitzer,” it added.
The ministry also announced that over the past week the Russian military shot down two MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, eight French-made SCALP-EG cruise missiles, 25 U.S.-made ATACMS and Tochka-U operational-tactical missiles, 18 French-made Hammer guided bombs, 13 U.S.-made HARM anti-radiation missiles, one Neptun anti-ship missile, 91 HIMARS, Vampire and Olkha MLRS projectiles as well as 356 UAVs.
During the same period, 67 Ukrainian troops surrendered to the Russian military in different directions within the special military zone, according to the ministry.
“In total, 603 airplanes and 274 helicopters, 24,590 unmanned aerial vehicles, 524 air defense missile systems, 16,149 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,311 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 9,802 field artillery cannons and mortars as well as 21,966 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation,” the ministry said.
All in all, Kiev forces took several blows and suffered heavy losses in manpower and equipment over the past week. The situation will likely change, even if the United States and other Western backers of the Kiev regime provided more military support.
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a hot war against russia would last just few hours. and the enemy, blind (no sats) and impotent (all his nuке sites/silos have been neutralized) would be atomically defeated. nato will not be able to retaliate, but if so (for some kind of miracle), the multilayered s-500 and s-550 air defense are ready waiting for them. as well as the jammers of course. keep poking the bear and find out later.
5 russian in graves are better then one at the roof, if they have your standard.
jensi, the african guests came, go open the door to them honey
the danish nazi showing his true colors once again. i wonder if he is the one painting all those swastika on danish planes?
hej, this ukrainian kasper has about as much to do with denmark as the austrian faxing clown adolf hitler has to do with germany.
no, this ukrainian nazi clown 🤡 has about as much to do with denmark as wienerbrød 🍪 has to do with wien (vienna) austria 🇦🇹 , where did hitler 🙋♀️ come from 😆😆😆
what does that even mean? at the roof….. does your daily penetration adventure by the danish non binary unicorn fluffer squad make you talk this way? does it hurts seeing your nazi friends die on the battlefield? go join them to help ukraine win🤣
i am 0 id retired nazi potato farmer–i worship money–money is morality
my only standard for morality is money–i worship dollar
something wron with the russia warfare. they only killed 5 civile yesterday.
zig-zag drones ???
israel killed more civilians in a few months than the entire war in ukraine over 2 years. that says alot about their a.i kill program. not so smart as they claim. russia is being careful with civilians. ukraine is hiding in towns and using them as fortresses. terrorist tactics from a conventional army. disgrace
civilians with swastikas and weapons are also a target. so kill yourself son of a bitch
something “wron” with your spelling once again, dementia ridden danish nazi?
just start writing in german, we know that is your true belief.
guillable nazi clown! :)
lol, you heard that from ukrainskaya pravda regurgitated through the coping hags herald?
they killed many more but you were busy getting violated so you missed it.
really funny when a hasbara and nato troll, whos obviously a total braindead moron, really talk about dead civilians, while the sholoms kill 35.000 in gaza within only few months and the nato and usa killed some 2-3 million in the last 3 decades alone. so go and kill yourself you total idiot. lol
so we have ukrainian azov nazis beeing welcomed inside the british parliament. boris johnson making photos with the lot, and waving a flag with nazi symbols. france “training” an ukrainian soldier with literal ss insignia tatooed on his head.
but hey eurotards, keep pretending you are not nazis.
guillable clowns :)
jeezus, just buy bojo a bag of alpo and use a doggy bag to clean up his shit.
they know but choose to ignore it since they already picked the wrong side and fear looking more stupid then they already look now.
the kyiv regime is a dead regime walking.
ukraine will fight to the last citizen to remain independent…bring it you orc bastads!!!
heheheh
are you still living in this fantasy world of yours, little nazi?
retards like that will still believe that ukraine will win when there is 1 ukrainian left.
the last citizen dead , imprisoned by the nazis or escaped , then is finally peace .
hahahahaaaaa says a dreckiger hasbara hurensohn whos still carrying a nicname praising the mass killings of innocent civilians, woman and children? thanks, we dont need a better proof of whos the real bastard. pls go and kill your self you braindead moron lol
holms.group.2.01.0
the last citizen , yes , it will happen soon
i’d love to see a tos flamethrower systems report with “everybody loves the sunshine” from roy ayers as background music … ok, i’m a bit drunk … but neither the less ^^
as defeated nazi senile potato farmer retired due to incompetence i prefer amerikan gay bar
holm jens send potato to zelensky
uncle homer attacked my anuz 49 times
as i said and posted in the past for over five years in this rag ; israel will cease to exist. israel will be attacked by turkey and egypt. egyptian , turks, and iranians , backed by china and the russian federation will complete erase the israeli entity. the yemen houthi will ceremoniously walk and in a ceremony will free and return jerusalem .
regarding ukraine, ukraine will cease to exist. and the remaining population will turn to bitterness against of what the zionist jews controlled ukraine government have done. the killing of the slavs and the defacing and denying orthodox religion, will turn the surviving veterans to a virulent anti jew, many europeans will join. tens of thousands are already talking and preparing, just regular people armed and ready england and france will be nuked and so israel
many parts of europe will be inhabited for many years in europe americans will be forced to abandon the nations where they live we will see in cnn fox abc , ships evacuating american citizens from europe in the usa martial law will be imposed against the will
a jew persecution and elimination like nothing ever done before will be one of the consequences many south and central americans will participate in the america holocaust. i’m repeating my prognostication and divinations the same as five years ago, you now can see the signs ………
i doubt the statistics as guestimations.