Fire in Kremenchug shopping center
In the morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov said that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation “continue to attack military installations on the territory of Ukraine.”
“On June 27, in the city of Kremenchug of the Poltava region, the Russian Aerospace Forces attacked the hangars with high-precision air-based weapons with weapons and ammunition received from the USA and European countries. Kremenchug road machinery factory,” said Konashenkov.
He noted that Western-made weapons and ammunition were hit, designed for further shipment to the Ukrainian troops in the Donbass. But the ammunition exploded and “caused a fire” in a nearby “non-functioning mall”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on his Telegram channel the day before that Russia had “fired missiles at a shopping center with more than a thousand civilians”.
“The shopping center is on fire, the rescuers are putting out the fire, the number of victims is unimaginable,” said the Ukrainian president.
He also stressed that there was no “strategic value” in the affected mall.
In response, Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN, argued that the “attack on the shopping center in Kremenchug” was another Ukrainian provocation, and with the help of it, Kiev tried to “focus on Ukraine. NATO summit.”
“Friendly fire”
At the briefing, Konashenkov also said that the “successful joint actions of Russian troops, people’s militia units” of the DPR and LPR “caused critical losses in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
Military space forces launched several attacks on the deployment of Ukrainian soldiers in Kharkiv, as a result of which more than a hundred soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, foreign mercenaries were killed, and up to 15 armored vehicles and vehicles were destroyed.
“The poor education of Ukrainian citizens mobilized to participate in hostilities, as well as the low level of training of foreign mercenaries, is increasingly “becoming the cause of friendly fire,” said the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
According to him, the soldiers who came to replenish the 97th battalion of the 60th infantry brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were subjected to mortar fire from their colleagues.
“A similar incident occurred in the 28th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, where foreign mercenaries opened fire on the reconnaissance group of this unit. As a result, four soldiers died on the spot and three were injured,” he said.
precision strokes
The representative of the Ministry of Defense said that the Russian Air Force destroyed in one day “manpower” and Ukrainian military equipment in the DPR two command centers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as 28 districts in the Luhansk and Donetsk directions.
In addition, Russian high-precision weapons “hit four Ukrainian detachments of Grad multiple launch rocket systems, which bombarded settlements in the DPR.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, rocket troops and artillery struck 24 command posts, artillery and mortar units in 58 districts, as well as soldiers and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 304 districts.
And Russian air defense systems shot down three Ukrainian Air Force Su-25 aircraft and one Mi-8 helicopter in one day in the Nikolaev region. Nine Ukrainian aircraft were also destroyed. In addition, Russian forces captured seven Ukrainian Tochka-U ballistic missiles and ten multiple rocket launchers.
Attack the MLRS HIMARS
On Tuesday, the Telegram channel of the LPR representative office in JCCC reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine used the M142 HIMARS MLRS supplied by the West.
The shelling was recorded by the armed formations of Ukraine. Using the M142 HIMARS MLRS (1 missile) from the Artemovsk (Bakhmut) settlement direction in the direction of Perevalsk at 7:20 am.
On June 23, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov announced that the American HIMARS MLRS had arrived in the country.
Andrey Marochko, an officer of the LPR People’s Militia, told TASS that the supply of American multiple launch rocket systems to Ukraine allows the Ukrainian Armed Forces to bombard the most remote areas of the Luhansk People’s Republic.
“Even when it was announced that such ammunition and weapons would be delivered to Ukraine from America, we had already developed a number of measures that would minimize the actions of this complex, but we must take into account that. “This is still a formidable weapon and they do serious damage to both civilian infrastructure and of course civilians,” he said.
According to him, the operational control vehicles of the LPR monitored the movement of the HIMARS MLRS, which fired at Perevalsk, and the complex will be destroyed in the near future.