23.03.2022 (19:30)
Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
Units of the Russian Armed Forces have advanced another 2 kilometers during the day and are fighting against units of the 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the southern and southeastern outskirts of Novomikhailovka.
The grouping of troops of the Donetsk People's Republic inflicts fire damage to units of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and is fighting for the capture of Kamenka and Novobakhmutovka.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 86 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Among them: 6 command posts, 2 multiple launch rocket systems, 8 field artillery guns, 3 ammunition depots, 49 areas of concentration of equipment and military hardware of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Russian Air Defence means shot down 9 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Izyum, Kiev, Sumy, Kharkov, Chernigov.
In total, 255 unmanned aerial vehicles, 189 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,564 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 158 multiple launch rocket systems, 612 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,367 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
