The Russian Armed Forces continue a special military operation in Ukraine.
A group of Russian troops and units of the People’s Militia of the Donetsk Republic have completely liberated the Illich Iron and Steel Plant in the city of Mariupol from Ukrainian nationalists as a result of the offensive.
Tonight, high-precision long-range sea-based Kalibr missiles struck a military facility on the outskirts of Kyiv. The strike at the Zhulyansk machine-building plant Vizar destroyed the production and repair workshops of long- and medium-range anti-aircraft missile systems as well as anti-ship missiles.
The number and scale of missile strikes on Kiev’s facilities will be stepped up in response to any terrorist attacks or sabotage on Russian territory by the Kiev nationalist regime.
Russian air defence forces near the village of Gorodnya in the Chernigov region, while returning to the airbase with an S-400 anti-aircraft missile system, shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter that had attacked civilians in the village of Klimovo in the Bryansk region on 14 April. An Su-27 fighter jet of the Ukrainian air force was shot down in the vicinity of the village of Lozovaya in Kharkiv Region.
Also, eight Ukrainian drones were shot down near the settlements of Izyum, Levkovka, Novaya Astrakhan, Novaya Kuban, Shchastlivoye, Chornobaivka and Chernovy Sokol.
During the night, seven enemy targets were hit by high-precision airborne missiles. Among them:
- A Tochka-U tactical missile launcher and a temporary deployment point of a Ukrainian nationalist formation, including up to 20 armoured vehicles and up to 50 nationalists, were destroyed near Yasenovoye;
- In the areas of Dergachi, NovoyeLizavetivka and Povstantske, accumulations of Ukrainian military equipment and weapons were destroyed;
- In the settlements of Mykolaiv and Parutino, they destroyed stores of rocket and artillery weapons and fuel.
Rocket troops in Izyumskoye, Kharkiv Oblast, eliminated a mercenary unit of a Polish private military campaign as a result of the strike. Up to 30 Polish mercenaries were killed.
It also hit 221 military facilities in Ukraine, including: 12 command posts, 176 strongholds and areas of concentration of the enemy’s manpower; 12 artillery firing positions were suppressed.
During the night, operational and tactical aviation destroyed 13 Ukrainian military facilities. Among them: two rocket and artillery weapons depots and 10 areas of concentration of Ukrainian personnel and military equipment.
Army aviation in the areas of Husarovka and Volobuyevka destroyed accumulations of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment, including: three strongholds, 9 armoured vehicles and vehicles of various purposes.
A total of 132 aircraft, 105 helicopters, 245 anti-aircraft missile systems, 456 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,213 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 249 multiple rocket launchers, 966 pieces of field artillery and mortars, and 2,110 pieces of special military vehicle equipment have been destroyed since the start of the special military operation.
