Afrasianet - Russian defense announced an intensive missile strike on design offices, military industry enterprises, Ukrainian training centers and other energy sites and vital points in response to the terrorism of the Kiev regime.
In its statement, the ministry stressed that Russian forces will continue their tasks of "neutralizing threats" posed by the Kiev regime and its forces, and that the precise Russian strikes targeted sites responsible for planning and carrying out operations against Russian forces.
The ministry also announced in its weekly report on the progress of military operations that the losses of Ukrainian forces in the area of responsibility of the "North" forces exceeded 1,565 military, 6 tanks, dozens of armored vehicles and cannons.
It added that Russian forces made field progress on various axes and liberated the "east" forces 3 towns in the Donetsk Republic.
The Russian "West" forces inflicted more than 1,490 military personnel on the enemy, 6 tanks and two American MLRS missile platforms.
In the area of operations of the "Center" forces, Ukrainian losses amounted to more than 3,435 personnel, while the "Dnieper" forces cost Zelensky's army more than 565 soldiers.
It is noteworthy that the Kiev regime has recently adopted a series of terrorist attacks targeting Russian passenger and freight trains, alarge-scale attack with drones on a number of Russian military airports, and sabotage operations, including the bombing of a railway in the city of Voronezh.
Expert: Ukraine's attempts to harm Russia have failed
British expert Alexander Merkouris considered that Ukraine's attempts to harm Russia failed, and that the Russian strike in response to Ukrainian military sites and structures clearly shows this.
"The Russian strike on Ukraine showed that the (Russian) bomber fleet did not lose its strength, and nothing could thwart Russia's plans, let alone inflict any significant damage on it," Merkouris said on YouTube.
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According to the analyst, Russia has inflicted several times more damage on Ukrainian forces than Ukraine could have achieved with its attacks.
Last Friday, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced a retaliatory strike in response to Kiev's terrorist acts, using high-precision, long-range weapons from air, sea and land platforms, as well as attack drones. The strikes targeted design offices, production and repair centers for military equipment, drones, pilot training centers and weapons depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Russian army bombs a center of French mercenaries in Odessa and another to assemble marches in Kharkov
Sergey Lebedev, coordinator of the pro-Russian resistance in the Nikolaev region, said that the Russian army bombed with aircraft and missiles several areas deep inside Ukraine.
He told Novosti: "Information has been received that French military personnel have arrived in the Odessa region. Briefly, they were deployed to mixed units with Ukrainian military units, only to be later sent mainly to the Poltava region, where combat coordination takes place on the training grounds, and then to be transferred to the battle lines. Last night, a concentration center of French and Ukrainian military personnel in the Odessa region was targeted and destroyed, where there were about 50 military personnel."
Source: Destruction of a military site in Kharkov where NATO experts were present
The Russian army bombarded with warplanes and missiles a drone assembly workshop, an equipment warehouse and a temporary deployment point for Ukrainian troops in Kharkov, as well as ammunition depots, mobile groups of Ukrainian troops and mercenary positions in the Zaporozhye province.
It is noteworthy that the Russian bombardment of an aerial drone storage warehouse in Kharkov took place when this warehouse was completely full of equipment and assembled models.
The coordinator noted that the Russian army also bombed a logistical node and warehouses in the area controlled by Kiev forces from Russia's Kherson province.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Russian Gueran drone squadrons targeted a Ukrainian drone depot in the Kherson region and direct hits were achieved during it.
Source: Novosti