Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine (June 21, 2022)
Part 2
Missile troops and artillery have neutralised: 216 manpower and military equipment concentration areas of the AFU, 28 command posts, 64 artillery units at their firing positions, as well as 2 munitions depots.
Attacks launched by aviation, missile troops and artillery have resulted in 570 nationalists, 16 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, as well as 29 special vehicles.
Russian air defence troops have shot down 1 Su-25 of the Ukrainian Air Force near Mazanovka (Kharkov region).
19 Ukrainian UAVs have been shot down near Krutaya Balka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Dibrovo, Kapitolovka, Liptsy and Zavody (Kharkov region). 5 Tochka-U tactical missiles, as well as 30 projectiles of Uragan multiple rocket launchers have been intercepted near Lozovskiy (Lugansk People’s Republic), Lozovaya, Kremenets, Aleksandrovka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Dolgenkoye and Topolskoye (Kharkov region).
In total, 209 airplanes and 132 helicopters, 1,292 unmanned aerial vehicles, 348 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,709 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 580 combat vehicles equipped with multiple rocket-launching systems, 2,065 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 3,760 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
The enemy continues suffering considerable losses during the special military operation.
Only 28 servicemen of the 57th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU that operates in Severodonetsk have remained in the ranks, the other has been left only with commanders.
Reserves for replenishing the losses are exhausted.
Territorial Defence battalions that arrive from the western regions of Ukraine for reinforcing refuse to head to the front.
Servicemen of the 101st Territorial Defence Brigade of the AFU have stated that the refuse to be involved in the operations and headed to the rear area in the responsibility zone of Soledar operational tactical group.
There are more than 600 persons who have refused to fight.
M777 155-mm howitzers delivered by USA and European countries to Ukraine have become a good target for Russian destruction means.
15 howitzers, mostly yet unused and deployed near Druzhkovka railway station, have been destroyed over the past 24 hours.
Residents of settlements adjacent to operations zones in Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov and Zaporozhye regions are being forcibly mobilised. National police units block the settlements for these purposes. Men of all ages are detained to be mobilised.
Kiev regime spreads information about an allegedly secret trip of Zelensky to Lisichansk where he faced a shelling.
At the same time, the group of Ukrainian troops near Lisichansk has been cut off from supplies and is being under firing control of the Russian Armed Forces.
According to the Ukrainian prisoners, units of the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade have been abandoned by their commanders.
Servicemen who remained alive had nothing to do but to surrender for saving their lives.
The same situation is in the 57th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU. After losing the two thirds of personnel, its commander begged the group command to inform the AFU General Staff and Zelensky in person about the real situation.
Kiev regime continues spreading fake news in the best traditions of Kvartal-95 amid its military failures for doing something to stop the panic and the escape of its personnel from Donbass.