Russia MoD: Up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers, 700 Grad rockets destroyed
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Up to 100 military personnel, more than 1,000 artillery rounds for US-made M777 howitzers and about 700 rockets for 'Grad' MLRS were destroyed.
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Russian servicemen and armored vehicles in the Rostov region of Russia. (EPA)
The Russian military hit a Ukrainian artillery unit and destroyed a NATO ammunition depot in Salvyansk, Donetsk - an area currently under control by Ukrainian forces with precision strikes using ground-based weapons, as revealed by the Russian Defense Ministry on Sunday.
"High-precision ground-based weapons struck a temporary deployment point of a Ukrainian artillery unit and an ammunition depot on the territory of the ceramic plant in the city of Slavyansk. Up to 100 military personnel, more than 1,000 artillery rounds for US-made M777 howitzers and about 700 rockets for 'Grad' MLRS were destroyed," the ministry said.
As of Sunday, the Russian forces have destroyed over 1,500 Ukrainian UAVs, nearly 4,000 tanks, and other armored combat vehicles, 3,127 field artillery pieces and mortars, and 4,128 special military vehicles.
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25,000+ evacuated from Ukraine, Donbass to Russia
On Saturday, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, the chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, confirmed that more than 25,000 people, including about 4,000 children, have been evacuated from dangerous areas of Ukraine and the Donbass Region to Russia within the 24 hours that had passed.
Mizintsev indicated that "Despite the Kiev regime’s fierce resistance, 25,064 people, including 4,175 children, have been evacuated in the past 24 hours from dangerous areas of the Donbass republics and Ukraine to the Russian Federation."
According to the Colonel-General, 2,434,298 people, including 383,402 children, have been evacuated to Russia since the start of the war.
"The state border of the Russian Federation has been crossed by 383,048 private vehicles, including 4,804 in the past 24 hours," he highlighted.
