MOSCOW, January 3. /TASS/. Russia delivered one massive and 12 combined strikes by precision weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles, hitting Ukraine’s military-industrial sector, army and mercenaries’ deployment sites over the week in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Friday.
"Over the week of December 28, 2024 - January 3, 2025, the Russian Armed Forces delivered one massive and 12 combined strikes by precision weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles, hitting energy facilities supporting the operation of Ukrainian military-industrial enterprises, a gunpowder factory, the infrastructure of military airfields, ammunition and fuel depots, assembly workshops and storage sites of strike unmanned aerial vehicles and naval drones and deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries," the ministry said in a statement.
Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicts over 3,130 casualties on Ukrainian army in week
Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicted more than 3,130 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed 28 enemy artillery guns in the Kursk area and the Kharkov Region over the week, the ministry reported.
"During the week, Battlegroup North units continued destroying Ukrainian armed formations on the territory of the Kursk Region. Combat aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles and artillery struck manpower and equipment of seven mechanized and three air assault brigades of the Ukrainian army, a marine infantry brigade and four territorial defense brigades," the ministry said.
In the Kharkov direction, Battlegroup North units inflicted losses on formations of a mechanized brigade and a motorized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian army and two territorial defense brigades, it said.
The Ukrainian army’s losses in those frontline areas over the week totaled more than 3,130 personnel, four tanks, five infantry fighting vehicles, seven armored personnel carriers and 51 armored combat vehicles, the ministry specified.
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