The Russian news agency quoted the Russian Defense Ministry as also saying on Saturday that Russian forces had intercepted US-made Harm missiles with a shorter range and shot down 19 drones in the past 24 hours.
Britain had previously supplied Ukraine with ‘Storm Shadow’ long-range cruise missiles, while Kiev had asked Berlin to supply it with ‘Taurus’ cruise missiles, but it is not yet clear whether the Germany accepted Ukraine’s request.
Other details mentioned by the Russian Ministry of Defense in its daily briefing are:
60 members of the Ukrainian armed forces were killed in the battles on the Krasnolyman axis in one day. Russian forces destroy an ammunition depot of Ukrainian forces in the direction of Kobyansk. The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two ammunition depots of the 79th Airborne Brigade and the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donetsk and Zaporizhia. 260 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the ongoing fighting on the axis of Donetsk. Russian forces struck the command posts of two Ukrainian Armed Forces brigades in the villages of Verkhnekamenskoye and Toritsk in Donetsk. The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the ammunition depot of the 110th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Avdiivka region.
Ukrainian attacks on Belgorod
On the other hand, the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, a borderer from Ukraine, said:
The Belgorodsky district has come under fire 9 times over the past day. Two attacks were carried out using drones, and there were no casualties. Ukrainian army forces shelled the village of Novoptrivka with mortar shells. The Volokonovsky district was shelled 14 times by mortars, no casualties were recorded. The armed forces unit bombarded the village of Kozinka with mortars and artillery.
Repel a Ukrainian attack on Bakhmut
Earlier Saturday morning, the Russian Defense Ministry said its airborne artillery forces foiled an attack by Ukrainian forces heading towards Artyomovsk (Bakhmut).
She explained that the drone crews spotted a group of infantry supported by armored vehicles approaching the Russian positions, and they were targeted and destroyed by artillery, forcing the Ukrainian forces to retreat.
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