Ukrainian troops lost more than 300 soldiers in the Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih direction in a day. This was announced on Friday, October 7, by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov.
“In total, more than 300 Ukrainian servicemen, seven tanks, 13 armored combat vehicles and 17 vehicles were destroyed in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction per day,” he said at a briefing.
Konashenkov added that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) tried to organize an attack on the settlements of Pyatikhatki, Sadok, Ishchenka, Bezymennoe in the Kherson region, as well as Ternovye Pody in the Nikolaev region. Kyiv deployed forces of up to five battalion tactical groups, but Russian troops managed to repel all attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and foreign mercenaries.
“The enemy has been thrown back to their original positions,” the representative of the Ministry of Defense specified.
During the fighting in the area of the settlement of Pyatikhatka, Kherson region, the company tactical group of the 60th infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was also defeated.
Earlier on Friday, it was reported that Russian troops stopped the attempts of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in three directions at once. In the Kupyansk direction, the RF Armed Forces destroyed more than 80 soldiers, five tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles, ten vehicles, as well as a German self-propelled artillery installation.
At the same time, Russian troops destroyed more than 30 Ukrainian soldiers in the Krasnoliman direction when they tried to force the Zherebets River by soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
On October 5, the Ministry of Defense spoke about the liquidation of up to 70 Ukrainian soldiers as a result of fire damage to the positions of the 54th mechanized, 80th airborne assault and 10th mountain assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka, Spornoe and Yakovlevka in the Lisichansk direction.
Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special operation to protect the Donbass, whose residents refused to recognize the results of the 2014 coup d’état in Ukraine. The decision to hold it was made in connection with the aggravation of the situation in the region due to shelling by Ukrainian troops.
For more up-to-date videos and details about the situation in Donbass, watch the Izvestia TV channel.
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