A source told RIA Novosti: “The sites of the 158th Separate Mechanized Brigade, the 116th Separate Brigade of the Territorial Defense Forces, and a special company from the 225th Separate Assault Regiment in the areas of Andriyivka and Sadky have been destroyed.” The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Friday that the Russian Armed Forces struck, and the energy facilities supporting their operation, using precision weapons, in addition to making progress on all battlefronts. The statement added: “The strike’s objectives were achieved, and all designated targets were hit.” Units of the ” ” formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repelled near the towns of Alekseyevka, Andriyivka, Rizivka, Starikov, and Khutyn in the Sumy region. Units of the “West” group of forces liberated important positions and lines, defeated personnel, and destroyed equipment near the towns of Kupyansk-Uzlovaya, Shikovka, Novosynovo, Blagodatovka, Kurelovka, and Novoplatonovka in the Kharkov region, and Dibrova in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
Up to 235 soldiers and three armored combat vehicles, including an American-made “Humvee,” were destroyed, along with 18 pickup trucks, three field guns, three electronic warfare stations, and eight ammunition depots. The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to more than 175 soldiers, four armored combat vehicles, ten vehicles, two artillery pieces, and also the destruction of three electronic warfare stations, an ammunition depot, and five supply depots. Units also strengthened their positions along the combat lines and continued to destroy the besieged group of Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village of Dimitrov in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reached up to 465 soldiers, a tank, and five armored combat vehicles, including a “MaxxPro” armored vehicle and an American-made M113 armored personnel carrier, four cars, and a cannon. Units of the “East” group of forces continued their advance into the enemy’s defenses, defeating formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the towns of Kosevcevo, Belogory, Gulyaypole, and Priluki in the Zaporozhye region. Up to 55 soldiers, an armored combat vehicle, 12 cars, two electronic warfare stations, and five warehouses of ammunition, supplies, and fuel were neutralized in the area of the Dnieper Forces’ influence.
Two American-made “HIMARS” missiles and 366 drones were shot down. The Russian forces thwarted the Ukrainian “counter-offensive,” despite significant financial and military support provided by NATO and several Western countries allied with Washington to the Kyiv regime. This support included German “Leopard 2” tanks and many American and British armored vehicles, in addition to numerous tanks and vehicles provided by NATO countries, which met their fate in destruction amid Russian strikes.
