The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the failure of the attempts of the Ukrainian offensive in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction, the AFU suffered losses. In particular, the Russian military destroyed a HIMARS multiple launch rocket launcher and a Bayraktar attack drone. Military expert Dmitry Boltenkov noted in an interview with Izvestia the quantitative advantage of foreign equipment at the disposal of Ukrainian troops.
“In pictures of destroyed equipment and in the reports of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, foreign samples are increasingly found. This suggests that thousands of pieces of Soviet equipment inherited by Ukraine have been knocked out. Now artillery is represented mainly by Western calibers, American armored personnel carriers and armored vehicles, aircraft transferred from European NATO countries are participating in the offensive, ”he said.
Boltenkov added that all this has been collected since the beginning of the operation, and is now on fire in the Kherson direction.
According to the expert, European NATO countries have transferred to Ukraine a quantity of armored vehicles sufficient to equip several mechanized brigades. Some of them represent the Soviet legacy, some are already Western images. And now all this “hodgepodge” is thrown into one strategic direction. It took months to prepare them, but judging by the pace at which it has been destroyed in recent days, this offensive impulse of the VFU reserves will soon run out, Dmitry Boltenkov believes.
According to the Defense Ministry, the enemy lost over 30 tanks and nearly 400 servicemen over the weekend. In air battles, three Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft and a MiG-29 fighter were shot down.
Russian air defense units shot down eight unmanned aerial vehicles, including Bayraktar-TB2, three Tochka-U tactical missiles in the Kherson region, 67 rocket launchers, including 48 HIMARS MLRS, 15 Alder shells, four “Hurricane”, as well as three US-made HARM anti-radar missiles near the village of Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region.
Read more in the exclusive Izvestia article:
Offensive on a rake: VFU lost more than 30 tanks over the weekend
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