MOSCOW, April 24. /TASS/. Russian troops destroyed an UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) production workshop of the Ukrainian army over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.
"Operational/tactical aircraft, missile troops and artillery of the Russian groups of forces destroyed a P-18 panoramic view radar station, an UAV production workshop and a fuel storage facility of the Ukrainian army and struck enemy manpower and military hardware in 117 areas," the ministry said in a statement.
Russian troops advance to better positions in Kupyansk area over past day
Russian troops took better positions and repelled a Ukrainian army counterattack in the Kupyansk area over the past day, the ministry reported.
"Battlegroup West units took more advantageous sites and inflicted casualties on manpower of the Ukrainian army’s 30th and 57th mechanized and 77th airmobile brigades near the settlements of Sinkovka and Petropavlovka in the Kharkov Region, Novosyolovskoye and Chervonaya Dibrova in the Lugansk People’s Republic. They repulsed a counterattack by formations of the Ukrainians army’s 3rd assault brigade west of the settlement of Novovodyanoye in the Lugansk People’s Republic," the ministry said.
The Ukrainian army’s losses in the Kupyansk direction over the past 24 hours amounted to 30 personnel, three motor vehicles, two 122mm Gvozdika motorized artillery systems and a US-made HIMARS multiple rocket launcher, it specified.
