Ivan Bigma, head of the press center of the Western group, said that the Russian army destroyed two Ukrainian BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles near the village of Yampolovka in the Kupyansky direction, using Lancet’s stray ammunition. This was reported by TASS.
According to Bigma, motorized rifle units, in cooperation with artillery and aviation, repelled four attacks carried out by the 32nd mechanized and 57th motorized infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Sinkovka area. During the counter-battery battle, artillery units destroyed a 122 mm 2S1 Gvozdika artillery nest and an American M101 howitzer.
The head of the press center also reported that the group’s air defense systems destroyed six unmanned aerial vehicles: three Leleki-100, Sinitsa, Valkyrie and Fury.
As Bigma explained, in the Kupyansky direction the Ukrainian army lost up to 30 military personnel, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, one armored personnel carrier, two artillery, three mortar crews, six unmanned aerial vehicles and one car.
On March 9, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the crew of the Giatsint-B howitzer, belonging to the Western group of forces of the Russian Armed Forces, was in the direction of Kupyansky. broke the rotation Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
March 11, TASS agency with reference to law enforcement agencies reportedThe location of elite formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) was hit by a missile strike in the Kharkov region.
Before that, CNN television channel reported that the Russian army used FAB-1500 aerial bombs weighing 1.5 tons. caused There were huge losses among the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the balance of power on the front changed.
Ukrainian doctors before statedThat they do not trust official data on losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.