Russia strikes 95th air assault brigade, eliminates 30+ nationalists
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Military facilities in Ukraine are continuously targeted by Russian operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery strikes.
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![Service members of pro-Russian troops drive a tank near Novoazovsk in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine [File: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters]](https://media-en.almayadeen.net/archive/image/2022/8/17/dabef280-a907-4c97-b399-ebb64277aba7.jpg)
Russian service members drive a tank near Novoazovsk in the Donetsk region. (Reuters)
Using high-precision weapons, the Russian Armed Forces struck an ammunition depot of Ukraine's 95th Airborne Assault Brigade in Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), resulting in the destruction of more than 3,000 122mm artillery shells, mines, killing over 30 nationalists according to a statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Read more: Donetsk being cleared of Ukrainian mines banned by Geneva Convention
Russia's high-precision strikes against the AFU manpower and military equipment concentration sites in Kherson, destroying over 40 nationalists and 10 special military vehicles.
Military facilities in Ukraine continue to be struck by operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery strikes.
In total, Russian air defense units destroyed four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in Kharkov, Kherson and the DPR.
Some 267 Ukrainian airplanes, 148 helicopters, 1,747 unmanned aerial vehicles, 365 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,334 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 799 multiple launch rocket systems, 3,310 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 4,922 special military vehicles have been destroyed during the strike.
Earlier this month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that he was ordering the mandatory evacuation of people who were still in eastern Donetsk.
Ex-Afghan special forces fighting in Ukraine: Russian FMA
On Tuesday, the Russian presidential envoy for Afghanistan and the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Second Asian Department Zamir Kabulov said, as quoted by Sputnik, that former Afghan Special Forces fighters have fought on Kiev's side in Ukraine.
In mid-March, a source told Sputnik that the US was preparing to send former Afghan army soldiers to Ukraine.
"These special forces, some of them join Islamic State [ISIS] and fight in Iraq and Syria. It is very predictable, in my opinion. We have already discussed that this is a repeat of the Iraq scenario, which resulted in the IS emergence. And the other part of these former special forces apparently were promised money as mercenaries because they need to make a living, so they join the Ukrainian Nazis. But this does not depend on the Taliban in any way," Kabulov said.
He cited a Kyrgyz delegate as saying at a recent Afghanistan conference in Uzbekistan that approximately 110,000 former Afghan Special Forces had fled the country and were awaiting entry into the United States.
"Apparently, no one is going to give them any permission, which is the absolutely rude manner of the Americans," Kabulov said.
