MOSCOW, December 25. /TASS/. Russia’s battlegroup West repelled three Ukrainian attacks in the Kupyansk area over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a daily bulletin of the special military operation.
Here are the details of this and other combat actions that happened over the past day, according to the bulletin.
Kupyansk area
"Forces of the battlegroup West, supported by artillery fire and aviation strikes, repelled three attacks of assault groups from Ukraine’s 60th Mechanized Brigade, 25th Airborne Brigade and 95th Assault Brigade near the settlements of Sinkovka in the Kharkov Region and Novosyolovksoye in the Lugansk People’s Reoublic," the ministry said.
Ukrainian forces lost up to 30 troops and 2 motor vehicles.
Krasny Liman area
"The losses of the enemy reached 180 troops, one tank, one Bradley infantry fighting vehicle and two other vehicles. Counter-battery strikes hit self-propelled artillery pieces Akatsiya and Gvozdika and two D-30 howitzers," the ministry said.
The Russian army repelled a Ukrainian attack near Grigorovka and hit the enemy near Yampolovka and Torskoye in the DPR.
Donetsk area
"In the Donetsk area, coordinated actions of the battlegroup South, in cooperation with artillery, helped repel an attack of Ukraine’s 24th Mechanized Brigade near the settlements of Shumy, DPR, and inflicted fire damage to enemy personnel and vehicles near the settlement of Klescheyevka, DPR," the ministry said.
Over the past day, Ukrainian forces lost up to 200 servicemen as killed an injured, as well as 2 infantry fighting vehicles, 6 motor vehicles, Msta-B and D-20 howitzers, two D-30 cannons and a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery unit.
South Donetsk area
"In the south Donetsk area, units of Battlegroup East, acting in coordination with artillery forces and aircraft, inflicted fire damage on an encampment site of the 79th Air Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces near the Novomikahilovka settlement in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The enemy lost up to 55 troops in the area, as well as three pickup trucks and an Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system," the ministry said.
Zaporozhye area
"In the Zaporozhye area, units of the Russian battlegroup, supported by artillery and heavy flamethrower systems, delivered damage to servicemen and equipment of the Ukrainian 33rd mechanized brigade, 128th mountain assault brigade, and the 102nd territorial defense brigade in the areas of the Rabotino, Kamenskoye and Gulyaipole settlements in the Zaporozhye Region," the ministry said.
The enemy lost a total of up to 90 troops, four motor vehicles, a D-20 howitzer and two D-30 artillery units in that area.
Kherson area
"In the Kherson area, as a result of the actions of Russian units and artillery fire, the enemy lost up to 60 servicemen, three motor vehicles, as well as the Msta-B howitzer," the ministry said.
Air Force and air defenses
"Russian tactical aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile and artillery forces hit a 35D6 radar system designed to detect and track low-altitude targets, two German-made IRIS-T missile launchers and a fuel depot, as well as troops and equipment in 113 areas," the ministry said.
Air defenses intercepted five HIMARS rockets and 40 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Velikiye Vyselki in the Kharkov Region; Kremennaya, Ploshchanka and Verkhnekamenka in the Lugansk People’s Republic; Maryinka in the Donetsk People’s Republic; Ocheretovatoye in the Zaporozhye Region; Novaya Kakhovka and Brilyovka in the Kherson Region.
According to the Defense Ministry, a total of 558 planes, 261 helicopters, 10,080 unmanned aerial vehicles, 442 missile systems, 14,309 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,189 multiple rocket launchers, 7,493 field artillery systems and mortars, as well as 16,690 special military motor vehicles, have been destroyed since the start of Russia’s special military operation.