Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (for the period from December 9 to December 15, 2023)
In the period from December 9 to December 15 this year, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out 40 group strikes with precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles on military airfield infrastructure, arsenals, places of storage of artillery ammunition, weapons and military equipment of the enemy.
In addition, the locations of the AFU units, the Azov national formation, as well as the "Foreign Legion" were affected. All assigned objects are hit.
In the Kupyansk direction, units of the "Western" grouping of troops improved their position along the front edge and repelled 27 enemy attacks.
Air strikes and artillery fire defeated the manpower and equipment of the 113th Air Defense Brigade, 57th motorized Infantry, 14th, 21st, 41st, 43rd, 60th and 115th mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka, Ivanovka, Yagodnoye, Petropavlovsk and Kupyansk, Kharkiv region.
The enemy's losses during the week amounted to over 425 soldiers, five tanks, including one Leopard, 11 armored combat vehicles, 12 vehicles and three field artillery guns.
In the Krasnolimansk direction, units of the Center group of forces, with the support of aviation and artillery fire, repelled 11 attacks by assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In addition, clusters of manpower of the 24th, 63rd, 67th mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the 1st, 5th and 31st brigades of the National Guard of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Kirovsk, Torskoye, Yampol and Grigorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic were defeated.
The total enemy losses during the week amounted to 1,100 troops, four tanks, three armored combat vehicles, 17 vehicles and two field artillery guns.
In the Donetsk direction, units of the "Southern" grouping of troops over the past week, with the support of aviation and artillery fire, improved the position along the front edge in some areas, and also repelled 49 enemy attacks.
In addition, in the areas of the settlements of Artemovskoye, Kleshcheyevka, Kurdyumovka and Georgievka of the Donetsk People's Republic, fire damage was inflicted on the personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The enemy's losses in this area during the week amounted to more than 1,580 soldiers killed and wounded, two tanks, 16 armored combat vehicles, 13 vehicles and 31 field artillery guns.
In the South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok group of forces repelled two enemy attacks.
Air strikes and artillery fire inflicted fire damage on units of the 58th Motorized Infantry, 72nd mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 128th Air Defense Brigade in the areas of the settlements of Novomikhailovka, Ugledar, Makarovka of the Donetsk People's Republic and Levadnoye of the Zaporozhye region.
The losses of the Armed Forces amounted to over 600 soldiers, three armored combat vehicles, 14 vehicles and 11 field artillery pieces.
In the Zaporozhye direction, units of Russian troops conducted an active defense, during which they repelled eight enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Rabocino and west of Verbovoye in the Zaporozhye region.
In addition, fire damage was inflicted on the manpower and equipment of the 128th mountain assault, 33rd, 65th, 117th and 118th mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Malaya Tokmachka, Novodanilovka and Novoandreevka of the Zaporozhye region.
The enemy's losses in this direction amounted to up to 335 soldiers killed and wounded, 19 vehicles and three field artillery guns.
In the Kherson direction, all attempts to land enemy sabotage groups on the islands and the left bank of the Dnieper were stopped.
Air strikes and artillery fire defeated units of the 35th, 36th and 37th Marine brigades, as well as the 124th Air Defense Brigade in the areas of the city of Kherson and the settlements of Berislav and Tyaginka of the Kherson region.
As a result of the preemptive actions of the Russian troops, the AFU lost up to 290 servicemen, 18 vehicles, 17 boats, and nine field artillery pieces.
An air defense helicopter Mi-8 of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down near the settlement of Tyaginka in the Kherson region.
Intercepted in a week: The Tochka-U tactical missile, two S-200 anti-aircraft guided missiles, 17 HIMARS multiple rocket launchers, as well as 119 unmanned aerial vehicles.
During the week, 82 Ukrainian servicemen were captured and voluntarily surrendered, 25 of them in the past day alone.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 550 aircraft, 258 helicopters, 9696 unmanned aerial vehicles, 442 anti-aircraft missile systems, 14078 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1188 multiple rocket launchers, 7338 field artillery and mortars, as well as 16336 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
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