The main thing from the statement of the Russian Ministry of Defense about the special operation at 10:00:
- in Mariupol, a group of Russian troops and units of the People's Militia of the DPR completely liberated the metallurgical plant named after Ilyich from Ukrainian nationalists;
- at night, Caliber missiles hit a military facility on the outskirts of Kyiv;
- as a result of the strike on the Zhulyansky machine-building plant "Vizar", the workshops for the production and repair of long-range and medium-range air defense systems, as well as anti-ship missiles, were destroyed;
- the number and scale of missile strikes against objects in Kyiv will be increased in response to the commission by the Kiev nationalist regime of any attacks of a terrorist nature or sabotage on Russian territory;
- Russian air defense systems in the area of Gorodnya, Chernihiv region, while returning to the air base of the S-400 air defense system, shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter, which attacked the inhabitants of the peaceful settlement of Klimovo in the Bryansk region on April 14;
- A Su-27 fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was shot down in the Lozova area in the Kharkiv region;
- Eight Ukrainian UAVs were also shot down in the areas of Izyum, Levkovka, New Astrakhan, New Kuban, Schastlivy, Chernobaevka, Chernovy Sokol;
- during the night, seven enemy targets were hit by high-precision air-launched missiles.
Among them: in the area of Yasenovy, a Tochka-U tactical missile launcher and a temporary deployment point of a Ukrainian nationalist formation were destroyed, including up to 20 armored vehicles and up to 50 nationalists;
in the areas of Dergachi, Novoelizavetovka, Povstansky, accumulations of Ukrainian military equipment and weapons were destroyed;
in Nikolaev and Parutin, warehouses of rocket and artillery weapons and fuel were destroyed;
- as a result of the strike, a detachment of mercenaries of a Polish private military company was liquidated by rocket troops in Izyumsky, Kharkov region, up to 30 Polish mercenaries were destroyed;
- 221 military facilities of Ukraine were also hit, including 12 command posts, 176 strongholds and enemy manpower concentration areas, 12 artillery firing positions were suppressed;
- operational-tactical aviation destroyed 13 military facilities of Ukraine overnight. Among them are two depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ten areas of concentration of personnel and Ukrainian military equipment;
- Army aviation in the areas of Gusarovka and Volobuevka destroyed accumulations of manpower and Ukrainian military equipment, including three strongholds, nine armored vehicles and vehicles for various purposes.
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