Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (for the period from December 23 to December 29, 2023)
During the period from December 23 to December 29 of this year. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out 50 group and one massive strike with precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against military-industrial complex facilities, military airfield infrastructure, arsenals, as well as storage sites for artillery ammunition, unmanned boats, weapons and fuel for military equipment.
In addition, the locations of units of the Ukrainian armed forces, nationalist formations and foreign mercenaries were hit.
All designated targets are hit.
In the Kupyansk direction, units of the “Western” group of forces improved the position along the front line in certain sectors over the course of a week and repelled 27 enemy attacks.
Air strikes and artillery fire defeated the personnel and equipment of the 10th mountain assault, 25th airborne, 95th airborne, 30th, 43rd, 60th and 115th mechanized brigades in areas of the settlements Novoselovskoye, Lugansk People's Republic, Sinkovka, Ivanovka, Petropavlovka and Kupyansk, Kharkov region.
Enemy losses during the week amounted to over 265 military personnel, a tank, an armored combat vehicle, 18 vehicles, and five field artillery pieces.
In the Krasnolimansky direction, units of the Center group of forces, with the support of aviation and artillery fire, improved the situation along the front line and repelled 13 enemy attacks.
They defeated concentrations of manpower of the 24th, 63rd, 67th mechanized brigades, 100th, 125th terrestrial defense brigades, 12th special forces brigade and 5th brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine in the areas of Chervonaya Dibrova settlements of the Lugansk People's Republic , Torskoye, Grigorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic and Serebryansky forestry.
Enemy losses in this direction amounted to 1,205 military personnel, six tanks, 12 armored combat vehicles, 12 vehicles and 13 field artillery guns.
In the Donetsk direction, units of the “Southern” group of troops, with the support of aviation and artillery fire, liberated the village of Marinka of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
The most significant contribution to the liberation of the city was made by the assault detachments of the 150th motorized rifle division of the 8th army and the 5th separate motorized rifle brigade of the 1st army corps of the Southern Military District.
Over the past week, in this direction, Russian units repelled 34 enemy attacks and inflicted fire damage on Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the areas of the settlements of Kurdyumovka, Kleshcheevka, Krasnoe, Andreevka and Georgievka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Total enemy losses amounted to more than 1,675 military personnel, seven tanks, 13 armored combat vehicles, 29 vehicles, a Czech-made RM-70 Vampire MLRS combat vehicle, as well as 49 field artillery pieces.
In the South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok group of troops repelled three enemy attacks.
Aviation strikes and artillery fire inflicted fire damage on units of the 79th Air Assault, 72nd Mechanized Brigades and the 128th Terrorist Defense Brigade in the areas of the settlements of Novomikhailovka, Vodyanoye, Paraskovievka and Makarovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces' losses amounted to over 675 military personnel, two tanks, four armored combat vehicles, 19 vehicles, and 15 field artillery pieces.
In the Zaporozhye direction, units of Russian troops conducted an active defense during which they repelled two enemy attacks in the area of the village of Verbovoye, Zaporozhye region.
Fire damage was caused to the personnel and equipment of the 128th mountain assault, 33rd, 65th and 118th mechanized brigades in the areas of the settlements of Orekhov, Malaya Tokmachka, Belogorye, Novodanilovka and Rabotino, Zaporozhye region.
Enemy losses amounted to up to 475 military personnel, a tank, six armored combat vehicles, 20 vehicles and 12 field artillery pieces.
In the Kherson direction, complex firepower and preemptive actions by Russian troops thwarted attempts to transfer sabotage groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to the islands and the left bank of the Dnieper.
Aviation strikes and artillery fire damaged the personnel and equipment of the 35th, 36th and 38th Marine Brigades, the 124th, 126th Terrestrial Defense Brigades in the areas of the settlements of Berislav, Tyaginka, Tokarevka, Nikolskoye, Zmievka and Chernobaevka Kherson region.
As a result of the actions of Russian troops, the total losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to 390 military personnel, 25 vehicles, 17 boats, and 22 field artillery pieces.
Within a week, 43 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered, 22 of them in the Kupyansk direction.
Over the past week, operational-tactical aviation and missile forces of military groups destroyed launchers of anti-aircraft missile systems: Norwegian-made NASAMS, German-made IRIS-T and French-made Crotale-NG, the radar of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system, as well as three counter-battery warfare radars USA made AN/TPQ-50.
During the week, aviation and air defense systems shot down 10 enemy aircraft and two helicopters. Including: one MiG-29, three Su-27, three Su-24 and three Su-25, as well as two Mi-8 helicopters of the Ukrainian Air Force.
In addition, 33 HIMARS and Uragan multiple launch rocket systems, four HARM anti-radar missiles, a JDAM guided bomb, a Neptune anti-ship missile and 251 unmanned aerial vehicles were intercepted.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 564 aircraft, 263 helicopters, 10,206 unmanned aerial vehicles, 445 anti-aircraft missile systems, 14,383 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,190 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 7,564 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 16,833 units of special military vehicles.