Russian forces repel 11 Ukrainian attacks near Donetsk, causing roughly 325 casualties
MOSCOW, February 11. /TASS/. Russian forces repelled 11 Ukrainian attacks in the Donetsk direction in the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a report.
The enemy sustained roughly 325 casualties and lost a tank, two armored combat vehicles, six cars and a D-30 howitzer near 10 settlements of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the ministry specified.
Zaporozhye Region
Russian troops repelled a Ukrainian attack near Novopokrovka, causing roughly 50 casualties, the report reads.
"Near the Kherson sector of the line of engagement, units from the Russian battlegroup, supported by artillery fire, repelled an attack by the 117th mechanized brigade near Novopokrovka in the Zaporozhye Region as they struck Ukrainian manpower and equipment near Verbovoye and Rabotino in the Zaporozhye Region, as well as Tyaginka, Ivanovka, Lvovo, Berislav and Mikhailovka in the Kherson Region," according to the report.
The enemy lost roughly 50 troops, nine cars, a US-supplied M777 howitzer, a D-20 artillery gun and a D-30 howitzer there, the ministry specified.
Donetsk area
Russian forces struck the command outpost of a Ukrainian brigade near Novogrodovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic in the past day as they also destroyed a depot for aviation weapons, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
"Operational-tactical aviation, drones, missile and artillery crews of the Russian Armed Forces struck the command outpost of Ukraine’s 3rd assault brigade near Novogrodovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic as well as Ukrainian manpower and military equipment in 119 areas," the ministry added.
South Donetsk area
The Armed Forces of Ukraine sustained roughly 150 casualties in the south Donetsk direction over the past 24-hour period, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
"Enemy losses amounted to roughly 150 troops and three cars," the ministry specified.
Units from Russia’s Battlegroup East, supported with artillery fire, struck Ukrainian manpower and equipment near Shchevchenko and Vodyanoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Priyutnoye in the Zaporozhye Region.
Krasny Liman area
Units from Russia’s Battlegroup Center repelled two attacks by assault teams of Ukraine’s 60th and 63rd mechanized brigades near the Krasny Liman sector of the line of engagement, causing roughly 120 casualties, the Russian Defense Ministry.
The enemy also lost three cars there, the ministry added.
Kupyansk area
Russian forces repelled five Ukrainian attacks near the Kupyansk sector of the line of engagement in the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
"In the Kupyansk direction, units from [Russia’s] Battlegroup West repelled five attacks by assault teams of Ukraine’s 30th, 32nd, 43rd, 44th mechanized brigades and 103rd territorial defense brigade near Tabayevka, Ivanovka and Sinkovka in the Kharkov Region. The enemy lost roughly 210 troops and three cars there," the ministry added.
Drones, tally of destroyed equipment
Russian air defense forces downed 30 Ukrainian drones in the past 24 hours, according to the ministry’s report.
Since the beginning of the special military operation, as many as 570 planes, 265 helicopters, 12,196 unmanned aerial vehicles, 464 air defense systems, 14,959 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,218 multiple rocket launch systems, 8,012 artillery systems and mortars, and 18,469 special combat motor vehicles have been destroyed, the Russian Defense Ministry concluded.