27.04.2022 (10:35)
Briefing by the Russian Defence Ministry
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue a special military operation in Ukraine.
Hangars with a large batch of foreign weapons and ammunition supplied by the United States and European countries for Ukrainian troops on the territory of the Zaporozhye aluminum plant was destroyed by high-precision long-range sea-based Kalibr missile strikes .
Tactical and army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 59 military facilities of Ukraine overnight.
Among them: 50 areas of concentration of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment, four weapons and ammunition depots near the settlements of Chervonye, Dolgenkoe, Pashkoe and Veseloe, and a Buk-M1 antiaircraft missile system near Slavyansk.
As a result of the strikes, over 120 nationalists and 35 armored vehicles and vehicles were destroyed.
Missile troops and artillery performed 573 firing tasks during the night. Hit: 432 areas of concentration of enemy manpower and military equipment, 67 artillery positions, two batteries of multiple rocket launchers, as well as seven ammunition depots.
Russian air defence means shot down 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Alexandrovka, Balakleya, Bryanka, Zaporozhskoe, Izium, Kapitolovka, Peremoga, Petrovka, Popasnoye, Proletarskoye, Trudolyubovka, including two Bayraktar-TB2 UAVs in the area of the settlements of Kalesnikovka and Krasny Liman.
In addition, a Ukrainian tactical missile Tochka-U was shot down over the settlement of Ilyichevka.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 141 aircraft, 110 helicopters, 607 unmanned aerial vehicles, 273 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,596 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 296 multiple rocket launchers, 1,134 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 2,413 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
