Several senior military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) were killed in a missile attack during an awards ceremony for personnel of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade in the Kiev-controlled part of the Zaporozhye region. This was reported by washington post.
The publication states that the ceremony “turned into a bloodbath” and that at least 19 soldiers, including many senior officers, were killed as a result of the missile attack.
The publication claims that approximately 100 military personnel were present at the event. Doctors who arrived at the scene said they had not seen anything like this since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Before that, the governor of the Zaporozhye region, Evgeniy Balitsky reportedIt was stated that the Russian Armed Forces destroyed more than five Leopard tanks in 10 days.
He did not specify which Leopard tanks were hit. It is stated that almost all of the tanks were destroyed by Lancet’s stray munitions and kamikaze drones.
According to the statement made by the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed 13 thousand tanks and other armored combat vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as 15 thousand special military vehicles of the enemy, in the special operation carried out in Ukraine. It was also stated that 1,182 Ukrainian combat vehicles equipped with multi-barreled rocket launchers and nearly 7 thousand field artillery and mortars were destroyed.
Previously Zelensky saidIt prevents Ukraine from transferring hostilities to the territory of the Russian Federation.