During the day, Ukrainian troops in the Tauride direction destroyed the TOS-1A Solntsepek heavy flamethrower multiple launch rocket system and two units of 2S19 Msta-S self-propelled howitzers.
“The TOS-1A Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system and two units of 2S19 Msta-S self-propelled howitzers were destroyed,” said Brigadier General Alexander Tarnavsky, commander of the Tavria group of troops.
According to him, 583 occupiers were liquidated and 31 units of their equipment were destroyed:
one tank;
four medical armored vehicles;
seven artillery systems;
one MLRS;
11 UAVs;
six cars;
one unit of special equipment.
Tarnavsky noted that Ukrainian defenders are holding the defense in the Avdeevsky direction and continue the offensive in Melitopol.
At the same time, the enemy tried to break through in the areas of the settlements of Stepnoe, Avdeevka, Tonenkoe, Krasnogorovka, Maryinka and Staromayorskoe in the Donetsk region and Krasnoe, Rabotino and north-west of Verbovoy in the Zaporozhye region.