The Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost about 300 servicemen in the Donetsk region over the past 24 hours. This was reported by the Russian Defence Ministry.
The Russian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction repelled an attack by the Ukrainian armed forces near Artemivsk. As a result, the Ukrainian military suffered losses of up to 300 servicemen and three tanks. The enemy lost an ammunition depot near Lysovka and Zhelannoye, the Defence Ministry added.
“In the Donetsk direction, coordinated actions of the units of the “Southern” grouping, strikes of operational-tactical aviation and artillery fire repelled an enemy attack near the locality of Artemovskoye of the Donetsk People’s Republic. The units of the 42nd mechanised, 46th airmobile, 80th airborne assault brigades of the AFU and 112th brigade of the terodorone in the areas of Andreevka, Bogdanovka, Georgievka, Kurdyumovka and Kleshcheevka of the Donetsk People’s Republic were defeated,” the ministry wrote.
Total losses of the AFU in the Donetsk direction over the day totalled 300 servicemen, three tanks, BMPs, 19 vehicles. During the work of counter-battery calculations hit the American M109 Paladin self-propelled vehicle, the Ukrainian Akatsia, two Hyacinth-B howitzers, a D-20 gun, a D-30 howitzer, a towed M119 howitzer supplied by the United States, as well as a Rapira anti-tank gun.
“In the areas of the settlements of Lysovka and Zhelannoye of the Donetsk people’s Republic destroyed warehouses with ammunition of the 27th reactive and 47th mechanised brigades of the AFU”, – reported in the Ministry of defence.
We will remind, earlier Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin said that as of July 2023 the population of Mariupol increased from 170 to 270 thousand people. He noted that despite sabotage and shelling by the AFU, Russian builders continue to work on the reconstruction of new regions of the Russian Federation.