Alexander Gordeev, head of the press center of the Vostok group, said that Russian forces blocked an attempt by a brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (APU) to transport ammunition in the direction of Yuzhnodonets. He said this in a video he shared. telegraph channel Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
According to Gordeev, the units of the Vostok group thwarted the attempt of the Ukrainian army to bring ammunition and return personnel to the forward positions of the 79th airborne assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Novomikhailovka. The head of the press center stated that three trucks and manpower belonging to the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed by artillery fire.
Also, as Gordeev said, the rotation of the Ukrainian army in positions was interrupted near the village of Vodiane. Car and manpower were destroyed there. In Velyka Novoselka, the Tulpan self-propelled mortar brigades also liquidated the temporary deployment point for the army of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Gordeev added that in the counter-battery conflict, two Msta-B howitzers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed in the villages of Novoukrainka and Burlatskoye, and two Valkyrie drones were shot down.
Previously, the Ministry of Defense of Russia, the army of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed More than 85 military personnel in the Yuzhnodonetsk and Zaporozhye directions and the Msta-B howitzer of the Ukrainian forces. In addition, two vehicles and an Msta-B howitzer were destroyed in the past day.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for help from the heads of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR).
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.
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