❗️ 🇷🇺 Report of the Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine.The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.▪️In the Kupyansk direction, Russian troops inflicted artillery strikes on the accumulations of manpower of the 14th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Timkovka and Ivanovka, Kharkiv region. Up to 20 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored combat vehicle and four vehicles were destroyed.▪️ In the Krasno-Limansky direction, artillery fire inflicted a defeat on units of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade in the areas of Serebryanka of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Stelmahovka of the Luhansk People’s Republic. Enemy losses per day in this direction amounted to more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, an armored personnel carrier and three pickup trucks.▪️ In the Donetsk direction, in the course of successful offensive operations, Russian troops defeated units of the 57th and 59th motorized infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, two armored combat vehicles and four vehicles were destroyed.▪️ In the South-Donetsk direction, as a result of a complex fire engagement of enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Prechistovka and Zolotaya Niva of the Donetsk People’s Republic, more than 20 Ukrainian servicemen and three pickup trucks were destroyed.▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery strikes hit two depots of missile and artillery weapons of the 53rd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 108th territorial defense brigade in the area of the settlement of Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the city of NUTS, Zaporozhye region, as well as 62 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 105 districts.▪️ During the counter-battery fight, during the day, the following were destroyed at firing positions: two US-made M777 artillery systems in the areas of the settlements of Seversk and Avdeevka of the Donetsk People’s Republic; four self-propelled artillery mounts “Krab” of Polish production in the areas of the settlements of Avdeevka, Seversk and Zvanovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic; three D-20 towed howitzers in the areas of the settlements of Nevskoye, Novolyubovka, Luhansk People’s Republic and Shalygino, Sumy region; two installations of multiple launch rocket systems “Grad” in the settlements of Artemovsk and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic, as well as a combat vehicle of the MLRS “Uragan” in the city of Seversk. In addition, in the areas of the settlements of Artemovsk and Dzerzhinsk of the Donetsk People’s Republic, two US-made counter-battery radars AN / TPQ-50 and AN / TPQ-36 were destroyed.▪️ Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down three Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in the areas of the settlements of Yasenovoye, Pushkino and Maksimilyanovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic.▪️ Air defense systems destroyed ten Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Ploshchanka, Oborotnovka, Podkuychansk, Chervonopopovka, Golikovo, Zhytlovka and Kremennaya of the Luhansk People’s Republic, Valeryanovka, Volnovakha and Evgenovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic in a day.▪️In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 370 aircraft, 200 helicopters, 2866 unmanned aerial vehicles, 400 anti-aircraft missile systems, 7465 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 975 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3802 field artillery guns and mortars, and also 7992 units of special military vehicles.