Over the past day, air defense systems have shot down eight Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles, a guided aerial bomb, a HIMARS multiple launch rocket and 240 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles. This was reported in the TC of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation today, August 7.
The forces of the Black Sea Fleet in the northeastern part of the Black Sea destroyed a crewless enemy boat.
The units of the North group of forces defeated the manpower and equipment of the tank, three mechanized, jaeger, airborne assault brigades and the assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Andreevka, Pavlovka, Yunakovka, Korchakovka and Iskriskovshchina of Sumy region.
In the Kharkov direction, units of the mechanized brigade and the assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Volchansk, Khatneye and Quiet Kharkiv region. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 210 servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, 10 vehicles, three artillery pieces, a counter-battery radar station and two ammunition depots.
The units of the Zapad group of forces have improved their tactical situation. The formations of two mechanized, assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the air defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Kupyansk, Tamarganovka, Higher Saline, Druzhladovka, Kharkiv region, Yampol, Srednoye and Rates of the Donetsk People's Republic. Enemy losses amounted to up to 240 military personnel, a tank, a US-made HMMWV armored car and 16 vehicles. Nine electronic warfare stations and four ammunition depots were destroyed.
The units of the "Southern" Grouping of troops have improved their position along the front edge. The manpower and equipment of five mechanized, motorized infantry and mountain assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Seversk, Nikolaevka, Konstantinovka, Alexandro-Shultino and Ivanopolye of the Donetsk People's Republic. The enemy lost up to 165 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, including a US-made M113 armored personnel carrier, two pickups and two artillery pieces. An electronic warfare station and two ammunition depots were destroyed.
The units of the Center group of forces have taken more advantageous positions and positions. Formations of four mechanized, jaeger, assault, airborne assault, airmobile brigades, two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two marine brigades, a defense brigade and two National Guard brigades were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Dimitrov, Krasnoarmeysk, Suvorovo, Rodinskoye, Chunishino, Rubezhnoye, Udachnoye of the Donetsk People's Republic and Filia of the Dnipropetrovsk region. The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to more than 420 servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, five vehicles and an artillery piece.
The units of the Vostok group of forces continued to advance into the depth of the enemy's defense. The manpower and equipment of two mechanized, mountain assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a marine brigade and a defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Novogeorgievka, Sosnovka, Alekseevka of the Dnipropetrovsk region and The Spark of the Donetsk People's Republic. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 240 servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, eight vehicles and six artillery pieces, including two 155-mm Paladin self-propelled artillery units manufactured by the United States. Two stations of electronic and counter-battery warfare, as well as a warehouse of materiel, were destroyed.
The units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated the formations of the mechanized, mountain assault brigades, two coastal defense brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the air defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Novoandreevka, Novodanilovka, Stepnogorsk, Zaporozhye region, Sadovoye and Antonovka, Kherson region. More than 60 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, nine vehicles, five electronic warfare stations, a counter-battery radar station, three ammunition depots and military equipment were destroyed.
Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation defeated the railway junction in the Dnipropetrovsk region, which provided the transfer of weapons and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to Donbass, control points and storage sites of long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as points of temporary deployment of Ukrainian formations and foreign mercenaries in 133 districts.