December 12, 2022

Ukraine Defense Ministry: Ukraine forces kill 500 Russian troops in 24 hour period

Ukraine Defense Ministry

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 13.12 were approximately:

personnel ‒ about 95260 (+500) persons were liquidated,

tanks ‒ 2966 (+0),

APV ‒ 5930 (+2),

artillery systems – 1931 (+2),

MLRS – 404 (+7),

Anti-aircraft warfare systems ‒ 211 (+0),

aircraft – 281 (+0),

helicopters – 264 (+0),

UAV operational-tactical level – 1617 (+0),

cruise missiles ‒ 592 (+0),

warships / boats ‒ 16 (+0),

vehicles and fuel tanks – 4549 (+5),

special equipment ‒ 170 (+1).

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Russia is concentrating its efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Zaporizhzhia directions. In other directions, Russia is trying to restrain the actions of units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.

During the day, Russian forces launched 6 rocket attacks, 4 of which hit the civilian infrastructure of the city of Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region, as well as shelled the city of Kherson with multiple rocket launchers.

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The two-hundred-ninety-second day of the resistance of the Ukrainian people to russian military large-scale invasion.

The enemy is concentrating its efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Zaporizhzhia directions. In other directions, the enemy is trying to restrain the actions of units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.

During the day, the occupiers launched 6 rocket attacks, 4 of which hit the civilian infrastructure of the city of Kostyantynivka, Donetsk oblast, as well as shelled the city of Kherson with multiple rocket launchers.

In the Volyn, Polissya, Siversk and Slobozhanskyi directions, the situation remains without significant changes, no signs of the formation of offensive groups of the enemy have been detected. Certain units of the armed forces of the republic of belarus and the russian federation continue to be located in the border areas with Ukraine. During the day, the enemy carried out mortar and artillery shelling in the areas of Seredyna-Buda and Ryasne settlements of the Sumy oblast, as well as Strilecha, Starytsa, Ohirtseve, Hatyshche, Volohivka, Okhrimivka, Chuhunivka, Ambarne, Dvorichna and Kamianka of the Kharkiv oblast.

In the direction of Kupyansk, the areas of the settlements of Kyslivka, Kotlyarivka, Tabaivka, Berestove in Kharkiv oblast and Stelmakhivka in Luhansk oblast came under fire.

Terny, Yampolivka and Torske districts of Donetsk oblast were hit by fire in the Lyman direction.

In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy fired tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery in the areas of almost twenty settlements. In particular, these are Verkhnokamianske, Spirne, Bilohorivka, Vesele, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Chasiv Yar and Druzhba in Donetsk oblast.

Zalizne, New York, Berdychi, Avdiyivka, Opytne, Vodyane, Nevelske, Krasnohorivka, and Maryinka of the Donetsk oblast came under fire in the Avdiivka district.

In the Novopavlivka direction, the areas of Vuhledar, Bohoyavlenka, Novoukrainka and Prechystivka of the Donetsk oblast were shelled.

In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the enemy inflicted fire damage on Vremivka in Donetsk oblast and Zelene Pole, Novopil, Novodarivka, Malynivka, Hulyaipole, Dorozhnyanka, Hulyaipilske, Charivne, Bilohiria, Mala Tokmachka and Orikhiv in the Zaporizhia oblast.

In the Kherson direction, the enemy shelled settlements in the Kherson region and the city of Kherson with barrel and rocket artillery, there were casualties among the civilian population, and civilian infrastructure was damaged.

russian occupiers continue to loot civil infrastructure objects in the temporarily captured territory of the Kherson region. Thus, as of December 11 of the current year, the equipment of local agricultural enterprises was removed from the settlement of Rubanivka.

In Mizhvodny and Chornomorsky, which are in Crimea, the russian occupying power intensified administrative and police and counter-intelligence measures.

The enemy continues to suffer losses. There are more than 100 enemy servicemen with injuries of varying degrees of severity in the local hospital of Kreminnaya, Luhansk oblast.

With the aim of replenishing the losses in manpower and re-staffing the units of the 1st Army Corps, women are called up for mobilization. 28 women have already been drafted and sent for training by the Kalinin District Military Commissariat of the city of Donetsk.

During the current 24 hours, the Air Force of the Defense Forces made 4 strikes on areas where the enemy’s personnel, weapons and military equipment are concentrated.

Ukrainian rocket launchers and gunners hit 2 control points and 4 areas of concentration of personnel of the occupiers.

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