Now that the war is undergoing minor changes on the fronts, but with many Russian casualties, the Ukrainian armed forces have once again successfully deployed naval drones, according to Kiev, after hitting two ships near Crimea.
A Ukrainian attack last night damaged two Russian amphibious landing ships off the west coast of the occupied Crimean Peninsula, in Chornomorske. The information, provided by the Kyiv Military Secret Service (GUR) to Ukrinform news agency, was later confirmed with a video of the operation. In addition to an unspecified number of military personnel, the Serna-class ships also carried BTR-82 armored personnel carriers. In May 2022, another ship of this class was destroyed by a Bayraktar drone while anchored on Snake Island.
Earlier, a Telegram channel reported in parallel an attack in the same part of Crimea that is said to have destroyed an infrastructure that would house military personnel. Ukraine has regularly attacked military targets and infrastructure in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula occupied by Russia since 2014.
Putin met with top military personnel in Rostov-on-Don, where he saw a Chinese all-terrain vehicle.
About 500 miles away, the Russian leader revisited Rostov-on-Don, the city that hosts the headquarters of the Russian armed forces in the south of the country and where the failed uprising of the mercenary Prigozhin began. During the visit, Vladimir Putin met with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov and the local commander, who briefed him on the military campaign in Ukraine.
Russian government agencies published photos and videos of Shoigu showing Putin driving a Chinese all-terrain vehicle. According to a sign next to the vehicle, the Russian army currently has 537 quads of this model used for reconnaissance and rescue missions. another 1590.
It is not known whether the meeting was related to the battle for Avdiivka. According to the Ukrainian General Staff, Russia lost more than a thousand soldiers in the past 24 hours alone, most of whom were in the neighboring city of Donetsk. According to the Kiev General Staff report, “Ukrainian fighters are holding their positions and inflicting heavy losses on the occupiers.”
Later it was the head of the Ukrainian Armed Forces himself, Valerii Zaluzhny, who recalled that the invaders had been trying to take Avdiivka for a month and the operation ended in a Russian disaster. “During this time, our soldiers destroyed more than 100 enemy tanks, 250 other armored vehicles, approximately 50 artillery systems and seven Su-25 aircraft. The enemy’s total losses, in terms of personnel, amounted to about ten thousand people,” the general said.
According to the Institute for the Study of War, Ukrainian forces in Kherson continue to expand their operations on the Left Bank of the Dnieper. thinktank North America will force Moscow to choose between allowing the situation to deteriorate or fortifying the ground at the expense of defending Zaporizhia.
Source: DN
