On December 28, local time, Lieutenant General Konashenkov, spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Defense, issued a briefing.
Russian self-propelled artillery fire, RIA Novosti photo
Report of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of special military operations in Ukraine (as of December 28, 2022)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct special military operations.
In the direction of Kupyansk, detachments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the settlements of Sinkovka, Timkovka and Kislovka in the Kharkov region came under fire. More than 30 Ukrainian servicemen, 3 armored combat vehicles and 2 cars were destroyed.
In the direction of hongliman, four company tactical groups of the 25th Airborne Brigade, the 80th and 95th Airborne Assault Brigades of the Ukrainian Army, as well as the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade troops located in the settlements of Novolubovka and Nevskoye in the Luhansk People's Republic, and the Dzerna and Serebryansky forest settlements in the Donetsk People's Republic, were hit by Russian artillery fire. More than 170 Ukrainian soldiers, 2 armored personnel carriers and 4 pickup trucks were destroyed.
In the Donetsk direction, due to artillery fire damage and the active actions of the Russian army, more than 80 Ukrainian soldiers, 1 tank, 4 armored combat vehicles and 5 cars were destroyed within 24 hours.
In the southern direction of Donetsk, the Ukrainian 72nd Mechanized Brigade detachment and foreign mercenaries were defeated by the Russian army in the Uglaida area of the Donetsk People's Republic. More than 70 Ukrainian soldiers and mercenaries, 5 armored combat vehicles and 2 pickup trucks were destroyed.
In addition, the Ukrainian sabotage intelligence team in the direction of Vladimirovka town in the Donetsk People's Republic was also destroyed.
Missile units and artillery units of various groups of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation struck 5 Ukrainian army command posts in the settlements of Dvrezhnaya, Yampolovka, Kirovo, Artemovo and Novoselk in the Kharkiv region, as well as 72 artillery units, 97 area personnel and military equipment on fire positions. A weapons and military equipment warehouse of the Ukrainian army near Gulaypole in Zaporozhye Region was destroyed.
During the counter-artillery struggle near the Krasnogorovka settlement of the Donetsk People's Republic, two U.S.-made M777 artillery systems and a German-made FH-70 howitzer of the Ukrainian army were destroyed in a fire position that had previously shelled residential areas in the city of Donetsk.
In the Seversk area, three Ukrainian army "Hail" multiple rocket launcher system launch vehicles were destroyed.
In the settlements of Petropavlovka in the Kharkiv region, Berestovo in the Donetsk People's Republic, and Chernobayevka in the Kherson region, three "Musta" B howitzers of the Ukrainian army were destroyed.
Ukrainian D-20 and D-30 howitzers were destroyed in the settlements of Georgievka and Malinka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Since the start of the special military operation, the Russian military has destroyed 352 Ukrainian fixed-wing aircraft, 192 helicopters, 2,734 UAVs, 399 air defense missile systems, 7,282 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 950 multiple rocket launchers, 3,737 field guns and mortars, and 7,792 special military vehicles.
