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The Ukrainian navy says it killed 83 Russian troops on Tuesday, whereas additionally destroying three Russian ammunition warehouses and a big quantity of navy tools.
Ukraine’s Operational Command South (OCS) mentioned the scenario was “tense and dynamic” in an replace posted to Fb whereas the nation’s navy was engaged with Russian forces on a number of fronts, together with the big southern counteroffensive launched final week. The Russian casualties have been reported following 13 obvious Ukrainian airstrikes and 250 missile and artillery assaults.
OCS additionally mentioned that 5 tanks, 12 Msta-B and Msta-S howitzers, three Hyacinth-B cannons and three armored autos have been destroyed. Three Russian ammunition depots within the Kherson and Mykolaiv areas have been additionally reportedly leveled.
Russian offensives have been aided by reconnaissance drones, with at the least one Orlan-10 reportedly being shot down by Ukraine on Tuesday, based on OCS. Russia was mentioned to be focusing its efforts on defending in opposition to the Ukrainian assaults, whereas additionally conducting “sneaky shelling” of civilian settlements.
A Russian artillery assault within the Nikopol district induced no causalities, based on OCS. Ukraine mentioned {that a} Russian Sukhoi Su-25 jet was “landed forward of schedule by our anti-aircraft missile items” whereas it was making an attempt to conduct airstrikes within the Kherson area.
Ukrainian civilians have been warned to heed warnings, keep out of restricted areas and stay “vigilant” within the face of Russian assaults.
“Given the threats of missile strikes and artillery shelling, heed the warnings of the protection forces,” OCS mentioned. “Be vigilant and thoughtful, don’t put your self in peril within the no-go areas. Particularly, areas of the coast are at present significantly harmful. The ocean is stormy and might be beneficiant in adversity. Comply with the air alarms.”
The most recent Russian casualty report from OCS got here sooner or later after the U.S. protection and overseas affairs think-tank Institute for the Research of Conflict launched a report asserting that the southern Ukraine counteroffensive was a part of a struggle of attrition that had succeeded in thwarting Russia’s technique in south Ukraine.
“The Ukrainian counteroffensive is tangibly degrading Russian logistics and administrative capabilities in occupied southern Ukraine,” the report says. “Ukrainian officers explicitly confirmed that Ukrainian troops search to attrit Russian logistical capabilities within the south by means of precision strikes on manpower and tools concentrations, command facilities, and logistics nodes.”
“Ukrainian forces intend to slowly chip away at each Russian tactical and operational degree capabilities in Kherson Oblast, and in doing so will probably have vital impacts on the executive and bureaucratic capabilities of occupation officers,” it continues.
Newsweek has reached out to the Russian authorities for remark.
