Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov on Saturday said Russia’s high-precision air-launched missiles struck a Ukrainian artillery training center with foreign instructors outside Sumy, 27 clusters of troops and ammunition and two command posts.
“High-precision air-launched missiles struck a Ukrainian artillery training center with foreign instructors in the area of the Stetsovka settlement of the Sumy Region,” he said. The spokesman said foreign instructors used the center to train Ukrainians on operating 155-mm M777 Howitzers.
Konashenkov said a foreign mercenary based was destroyed by a missile strike in the Dachnoye district of the Odessa region.
“In addition, 27 clusters of troops and military equipment of the armed forces of Ukraine were hit, and two command posts of the armed forces of Ukraine, six depots of missile and artillery weapons, ammunition and fuel in the areas of the settlements of Vesyoloye and Bakhmut of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Spornoye, Podlesnoye and Loskutovka of the Lugansk People’s Republic were destroyed,” he said.
Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov on Saturday said Russia’s drones, army and tactical aircraft destroyed more than 400 Ukrainian nationalists and four Grad MLR systems.
“Tactical, army and unmanned aviation struck 54 clusters of Ukrainian troops and military equipment,” he said. “A total of more than 400 nationalists were killed in the aviation strikes.”
Russian aviation also destroyed 20 tanks and armored vehicles and four BM-21 Grad MLR systems, he said.