The Russian army advanced on the fronts Donetsk And Kharkivin the east of Ukraine, as reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense today in the war report. The Russian agency RIA has indicated that Ukraine has lost in the last four hours Stryker armored personnel carrier. This is the first time Russia has reported the destruction of US-supplied Stryker tanks.
“On the Donetsk front, units of military group ‘South’ (…) repelled four attacks by the Ukrainian army near the towns of Zaliznyanske, Staromikhailivka and Krasnohirivka. Assault groups conducted successful offensive actions and improved their positions on the front line,” said defense spokesman Igor Konashenkov.
In addition, I would like to point out that on the Kupyansk front, in the eastern region of Kharkiv, “The units of the ‘Occidente’ group improved their position at the front with air and artillery support.”
According to Konashenkov Ukrainian losses in Donetsk amounted to 310 soldiers. in addition to lose a tank, three armored vehicles, nine cars and a D-20 howitzer.
In Kupyansk, where Russian forces repelled six attacks by the Ukrainian army, enemy casualties amounted to 125 soldiers, in addition to two armored vehicles, two SUVs, a Tiulpan self-propelled mortar, an M777 howitzer and an M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery gun
With information from Efe