The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that from September 9 to 16, 11 group strikes were carried out with high-precision long-range air and sea-based weapons, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, on port infrastructure facilities, places of production and storage of unmanned boats, fuels and lubricants, ammunition, Western weapons and points of deployment of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel.

“As a result of the strikes, the logistics of Ukrainian military groups operating in the Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, the supply of Western-made weapons were disrupted, and a large arsenal of engineering ammunition of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed,” listed the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov.

The lieutenant general also noted that during an attack on the Dolgintsevo airfield near the city of Krivoy Rog, Dnepropetrovsk region on September 11, two MiG-29 fighters and three Su-25 attack aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force were destroyed.

The representative of the military department also reported the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the main sections of the line of combat contact over the past week: 1,700 Ukrainian troops were killed in the Donetsk direction, 740 in Zaporozhye, over 1,100 in Yuzhno-Donetsk, up to 400 military personnel in Kupyansky, more than 400 in Krasno-Limansky, Kherson up to 360.

In addition to 4,700 mercenaries of the Kyiv regime (last week – 5,405) our soldiers burned 37 tanks, dozens of enemy armored vehicles and vehicles.

Over the past few days, the Kiev regime has been planning a series of provocations. But our pilots prevented them: on September 13, a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter was shot down near Krasny Liman, 12 unmanned semi-submersible boats, as well as three high-speed boats with landing groups of special operations forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, were sunk in the Black Sea.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine failed to restore lost positions in the areas of the settlements of Torskoye of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Serebryansky forestry and even to land saboteurs on the left bank of the Dnieper.

The appetites of the Kyiv regime are diminishing in proportion to the losses, although in the Donetsk direction the Ukrainian Armed Forces still continue to try to encircle what is left of the city of Artemovsk.

Konashenkov thanked the air defense units for their combat work, which intercepted 19 HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems and also destroyed 270 Ukrainian drones.

Let us note that on the night of September 16, air defense forces also thwarted an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out terrorist attacks with two aircraft-type drones on targets in the Kaluga and Tver regions, and during the day a Ukrainian drone was shot down in the Belgorod region.

MEANWHILE

After attacks on Crimea with long-range missiles from NATO warehouses, State Duma deputy from the Crimean region Mikhail Sheremet called for breaking diplomatic relations with the countries that supply them and train members of the armed formations of the Kyiv regime in sabotage.

BATTLE REPORT

In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:

472 – aircraft.

249 – helicopters.

6810 – unmanned aerial vehicles.

437 – anti-aircraft missile systems.

11881 – tank and other armored fighting vehicles.

1150 – combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems.

6403 – field artillery and mortar guns.

13035 – units of special military vehicles.