MOSCOW, July 28 Russian military has liberated the settlements of Progress and Yevgenovka in the DPR, the Defense Ministry reported.
The total losses of Ukrainian troops over the past day amounted to up to 1,930 people, four tanks and other armored combat vehicles, two multiple launch rocket systems, 23 field artillery pieces and mortars, and 28 units of special military vehicles, according to the Defense Ministry's report.
Russian aviation and artillery have hit a Patriot air defense radar station in 24 hours. In addition, concentrations of Ukrainian military personnel and equipment in 138 areas have been hit.
As the Russian Defense Ministry added, air defense systems shot down five HIMARS rockets, two Hammer guided air bombs, and 34 drones, 12 of which were outside the special operation zone.
Ukraine's strikes on Russia Last night, the air defense system intercepted and destroyed five UAVs over the Belgorod and two over the Kursk regions, the Ministry of Defense said. During the day, air defense forces shot down three more Ukrainian drones over the Belgorod region.
In addition, at night, drones attacked an oil depot in the Kursk region, three fuel tanks caught fire, none of the residents or workers were injured, said the acting governor of the Kursk region Alexey Smirnov.
In the morning, according to the Ministry of Defense, air defense systems destroyed two Ukrainian drones over the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod region.
Problems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Foreigners are leaving the Armed Forces of Ukraine en masse and criticizing the conditions of service there, said ex-SBU lieutenant colonel Vasily Prozorov .
According to him, foreign mercenaries complain that they were thrown into useless attacks and into the meat grinder under Russian artillery. In addition, the soldiers of fortune are not satisfied with the stupidity of the Ukrainian command, meanness and betrayal.
Prozorov also reported that the «International Legion» of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, formed from foreign mercenaries, consists of about three thousand people. He noted that «in fact, this is a brigade at most, without heavy weapons,» but with light armored vehicles, small arms, and grenade launchers.
At the same time, the «International Legion» is characterized by high turnover — many militants die in Russian strikes or simply go home, the former officer added.
In addition, the marines from «Azovstal» who have been in captivity for more than two years have appealed to the office of Volodymyr Zelensky and the leadership of Ukraine with a demand to exchange them; the servicemen consider themselves forgotten by the authorities and command, follows from their video message.
Kiev's trickTalk about the possibility of negotiations with Moscow is a tactical trick by Kyiv and the West to gain a respite, since Russia has an advantage in the special operation, said presidential aide Nikolai Patrushev.
«During the special military operation we now have an advantage, the West and Ukraine are interested in restoring their forces, they need a break. Therefore, all these statements have precisely the tactical nature of a respite,» he said.
In reality, the Kiev regime does nothing for the negotiations, Patrushev concluded.