The Ministry of Defense reported a strike on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kleshcheevka area

Russian troops carried out missile and bomb strikes on manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kleshcheevka area in the DPR. About it report “RIA Novosti” with reference to the head of the press center of the Southern Group of the RF Armed Forces Vadim Astafyev.

“The group’s aviation carried out missile and bomb strikes on concentrations of manpower in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Kleshcheevka,” he said.

Astafiev specified that the crew of the Mi-35 helicopter, using an anti-tank guided missile, destroyed a Ukrainian armored personnel carrier.

July 4 Ministry of Defense reported about repelling 10 attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction, including in the area of ​​Kleshcheevka. The day before, July 5, RIA Novosti, citing a source in the command of the Southern Group of Forces wrotethat the Russian military crossed another enemy counterattack attempt under the village.

According to the report of the military department, published on July 5, over the last day of the RF Armed Forces reflected attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk, Krasnolimansk, Yuzhnodonetsk and Zaporozhye directions. In these four directions, the enemy lost more than 680 servicemen, four tanks, five armored vehicles, etc., follows from the message of the Ministry of Defense.

The Russian special operation in Ukraine began on February 24, 2022. During the hostilities, Russian troops took full control of the LPR, as well as most of the DPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. Subsequently, these territories became part of the Russian Federation. According to the Ministry of Defense, since the start of the special operation, 449 aircraft, 241 helicopters, almost 4,900 drones, as well as more than 10,500 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been destroyed.