Ukrainian soldiers with an American M777 howitzer. File photoMOSCOW, July 29Ukrainian troops launched strikes with HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems at a detention center in the DPR, where captured militants of the Ukrainian national battalion Azov are being held, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. touched on the topic of Ukraine.June 22, 17:18 Infographics Interactive map of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine Yelenovka On Friday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that Ukrainian troops struck the American HIMARS MLRS at the detention center in Yelenovka, where prisoners of Azov are being held. According to the DPR defense headquarters, 53 people were killed and 75 were injured. According to the Russian defense department, the strike was intended to intimidate the Ukrainian military, who wanted to lay down their arms. The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that this was a deliberate shelling and a desire to destroy those representatives of Azov who began to testify. The course of the operation The Russian Armed Forces launched precision-guided missile strikes on the reserves of Ukrainian troops in the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. According to him, as a result, the 30th mechanized brigade, which was preparing to be sent to the Donbass at a training ground near Lyutezh in the Kyiv region, completely lost its combat capability. According to the ministry, the 57th motorized infantry brigade of Ukrainian troops in the Chernihiv region also suffered critical losses. that Russian air defense systems shot down six Ukrainian drones, and Russian aviation, missile forces and artillery hit the installation of the Tochka-U missile system, the weapons depot of the Ukrainian brigade in the DPR, manpower in 275 districts in a day. Ukrainian provocationsFriday evening in the defense department said that Ukrainian militants mined a bridge in Novopavlovka, Dnepropetrovsk region, in order to blow it up and accuse the Armed Forces of Russia and the DPR of «indiscriminate strikes.» defense control center RF Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev.Lavrov and BlinkenAt the initiative of the United States, for the first time in several months, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken had a telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. They discussed, in particular, the situation in Ukraine. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, Lavrov said that the goals and objectives of the special operation would be fully implemented, and the RF Armed Forces would strictly observe the norms of international law, Lavrov also told Blinken that the supply of weapons by the West to Ukraine only prolongs the conflict, prolonging 
Lavrov told Blinken that arms supplies to Ukraine are prolonging the conflict
