According to the Russian command, the Ukrainian forces lost in this direction “more than 150 soldiers, four armored combat vehicles, six cars and two D-30 howitzers” of Soviet manufacture.
Volunteers from the assault detachments, with fire support from the missile and artillery forces of the Southern Group of Forces, liberated the settlement of Krásnaya Gorá, located between the cities of Bakhmut and Soledar in the region of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic .
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This was announced on Monday by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov.
According to Konashenkov, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the day amounted to more than 150 servicemen, four armored fighting vehicles, six pickup trucks and two D-30 howitzers.
��������⚡ ❗ The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation today confirmed the complete liberation of the people of #KrasnayaGora. The offensive in the Artemovsk direction continues. pic.twitter.com/mbC2RE9kOl
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February 13, 2023
Also in the Donetsk region, the Russian forces of the Vostok (Eastern) group “hammered with their fire the live force and equipment of the Ukrainian Army near the towns of Prechistivka and Vuhledar,” Konashenkov added.
It is added that the Kiev regime lost more than 110 soldiers in the Kupyansk and Krasny Liman directions, and “more than 60 soldiers, three armored combat vehicles, four pickup trucks, one D-20 howitzer and two D-30 howitzers” in the southern direction of Donetsk.
In the direction of Kupyansk, the artillery fire of the Western group hit the units of the Ukrainian armed forces in the areas of Dvurechnoye, Krajmalnoye, Grianikovka and Timkovka in the Kharkiv region, as well as Novoselovskoye in the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic, he detailed. .