Over the last 24 hours, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) lost up to 45 soldiers and two armored fighting vehicles in the Zaporozhye direction. This was reported in the report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in the official gazette. telegram channel.
According to the ministry, during the clashes Russian soldiers, with the support of army aviation and artillery, destroyed the manpower and equipment of Ukrainian troops near the settlements of Rabotino and Verbovoye. The 82nd Air Assault of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the 33rd and 65th Mechanized Brigades, were located here.
“Ukrainian Armed Forces lost <…> Up to 45 military personnel, two armored fighting vehicles, two cars,” the publication says.
Also during the clashes, the Russian Armed Forces disabled a Ukrainian Msta-B howitzer. In the statement, it was also emphasized that one D-30 gun was lost from the Ukrainian Armed Forces units.
Attack aircraft of the 20th motorized rifle division of Russian troops on December 27 has taken It is under the control of a strategically important stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction. According to RIA Novosti, citing a source from the Southern group of troops, as a result of the attack, Russian Armed Forces fighters captured one of the four Ukrainian soldiers present here.
Formerly a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tore He attacks Russian positions in the direction of Donetsk, throws a grenade into a trench with his colleagues.