Kiev forces have lost 230 servicemen in a week in the attempts to break through to positions of 2nd Guard Lugansk-Severodonetsk Army Corps, said Lugansk People’s Republic Acting Head Leonid Pasechnik.
“Over the past week, Ukrainian armed formations carried out several unsuccessful attempts to cross the contact line,” Pasechnik wrote on his Telegram channel. “Our servicemen delivered pinpoint strikes at enemy manpower and equipment, command centers and field ammunition depots.”
“The attempts to break through to our forward positions in the Novodruzhevsk-Grigorovka and Artyomovsk-Kleshcheyevka areas ended in the loss of up to 230 Ukrainian troops in dead or wounded,” he said.
Motorized infantry units, jointly with drone operators and artillery crews detected and knocked out 22 artillery pieces and mortars, more than 15 recoilless guns, anti-tank missile systems, heavy machine guns and grenade launchers, two armored fighting vehicles, one M113 infantry fighting vehicle, one 2C1 “Gvozdika” self-propelled howitzer, eight Humvee vehicles and eight field ammunition depots, the LPR leader said.
Electronic countermeasures specialists and air defense units repelled 28 attempts to cross into the LPR air space eliminating more than 40 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles.
2nd Guard Lugansk-Severodonetsk Army Corps jointly with Akhmat special task force units continue to successfully defend the LPR borders, Pasechnik said.
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The Ukrainian government launched the so-called anti-terrorist operation against Donbass in April 2014. The peace talks failed to reach tangible results due to Kiev’s position to settle the conflict by force.
President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation on February 24, 2022 to protect Donbass residents from Ukrainian aggression. Prior to that, LPR and DPR Heads Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin asked the Russian leader to provide military assistance.*i*sb
