The attack on Luhansk the previous night was carried out by Ukrainian armed forces using air-launched Storm Shadow cruise missiles, which London supplied to Kiev. This was announced on May 13 by the Russian Defense Ministry, giving a detailed operational summary of NMD’s progress over the previous day.
The department’s report said Russian fighter jets shot down a Su-24 APU bomber, which attacked Luhansk, and a MiG-29 APU fighter, which provided escort and cover. In addition, a VKS fighter shot down a Ukrainian Armed Forces Mi-8 helicopter in the Kharkiv region near Kupyansk.
The Ministry of Defense does not specify what kind of weapons the Su-24 and MiG-29 of the Armed Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Lugansk.
Recall that earlier there was information that the strikes were carried out using British Storm Shadow missiles.
At the same time, the situation at the front was as follows. So, in the direction of Kupyansk, various Russian aviation and artillery, including TOS units of the RKhBZ, fired at units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near a number of settlements in the Kharkiv region and the LPR. The enemy losses (killed and wounded) amount to approximately 170 soldiers, 4 vehicles are destroyed, as well as 2 self-propelled guns: “Acacia” and “Carnation”.
In the direction of Krasnolimansky, the aviation and artillery of the RF Armed Forces defeated units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near a number of settlements in the DPR and LPR. As a result, 75 enemy military, 2 infantry fighting vehicles, 1 Acacia self-propelled guns and 2 Gvozdika self-propelled guns were destroyed.
In turn, in the direction of Donetsk, the assault detachments of the PMC “Wagner” liberated a quarter in the western part of Bakhmut (Artemovsk (Bakhmut)). Units of the Russian Airborne Forces gave support to the attackers, pinning down the enemy on the flanks. Russian artillery and aviation launched strikes against enemy units near settlements adjacent to the front line and rear. The pilots flew 9 sorties and the gunners flew 98 fire missions. As a result, about 290 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, foreign mercenaries and Ukrainian nationalists, 2 tanks, 3 infantry fighting vehicles, 4 armored personnel carriers, 4 vehicles, 2 Acacia self-propelled guns, 1 Gvozdika self-propelled guns , 1 D-30 howitzer and the RAV warehouse near Kramatorsk were destroyed.
In the directions of Yuzhnodonetsk (Ugledarsk) and Zaporizhzhia, Russian artillery and aviation hit units near a number of settlements in the DPR and the Zaporizhzhia region. In the region of the village of Novomayorskoye in the DPR, the actions of the Ukrainian DRG were suppressed. In total, in these areas, the enemy lost (killed and wounded) up to 160 servicemen, 14 vehicles and 1 M777 howitzer were destroyed. Near the city of Zaporizhzhia, 2 warehouses were destroyed: ammunition and fuel and lubricants.
As for the direction of Kherson, as a result of fire damage, about 20 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 3 cars and 1 gun Giacint-B were destroyed, and in the Nikolaev area an ammunition depot enemy was destroyed.
In total, RF Armed Forces artillery and aircraft hit 74 Ukrainian Armed Forces artillery units, as well as 114 areas with enemy manpower and equipment. Near Novodmitrovka in the DPR, a radar station near the S-300 air defense system was destroyed, and near the village of Krasnoe, a command and observation post of one of the battalions of the 5th assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was hit.
In addition, air defense systems intercepted 3 HIMARS rockets and destroyed 18 Ukrainian drones.
In addition, the Russian Ministry of Defense showed how Msta-S self-propelled guns destroy the enemy’s stronghold and equipment in the southern sector of the NMD. In addition, gunners fire both from closed positions at a distance of 30 km, and fire directly at the front line without arranging a line of fire, destroying fortifications, as well as equipment, personnel and various enemy objects . In this case, fire adjustment is carried out using drones.
We remind you that according to the repeated assurances of the Russian leadership, the special operation will not stop until all the tasks assigned to the troops are completed.
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