7/8/22
by WarNews 24/7
translated from Greek
Perhaps the worst day since the start of the war in Ukraine is being lived by the Ukrainian Army with Russia announcing huge, literally, Ukrainian losses with entire Brigades having been "wiped out" up to 80%!
Russia launched a barrage of Kalibr cruise missiles, both from ships and submarines, P-800 Oniks and Iskander-M attacks mainly on Kharkiv and Nikolaev which will be the next two targets of the war.
Kyiv has hundreds of wounded and over 1,000 dead Ukrainians
British Harpoons destroyed
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the destruction of two coastal arrays of British Harpoons near Odessa.
The Russian Navy launched a strike on two British Harpoon systems in the Odesa region, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
"High-precision weapons near the settlement of Liman, in the Odesa region, destroyed two installations of the Harpoon coastal missile system delivered by the United Kingdom, " ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a briefing on Friday.
It is noted that on July 6, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of two American HIMARS multiple launch missile systems launchers in Donbass as already informed by WarNews247.
Over 1,000 dead Ukrainians – Brigades hit
The Russian Air Force and Navy bombed positions of the 188th Battalion of the 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade in the vicinity of the town of Ochakov, Nikolaev Region.
Russian shelling killed up to 290 Ukrainian soldiers and 29 armored vehicles and vehicles.
At the same time, in the area of the city of Nikolaev, the Russian Aerospace Forces hit the deployment point of the 241st Territorial Defense Brigade.
As a result of the raids, up to 85 soldiers were killed and 15 units of weapons and military equipment were destroyed.
According to Russian sources, Kalibr cruise missiles destroyed two launchers of the Tochka-U missile system and killed more than 150 Ukrainian nationalists.
At the same time, four MLRS batteries and four artillery units were destroyed in the Novoluganskoye, Semigorye, Pervomayskoye, Zaitsevo and Kodema districts of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Russian air force together with the artillery hit 156 areas of concentration of personnel and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces as well as a fuel storage facility for Ukrainian armored vehicles in Kharkiv and the village of Annovka, Dnepropetrovsk region.
Su-35S aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down Ukrainian MiG-29 and Su-25 fighters of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Lazarevka region of Mykolaiv.
In addition, during the day, Russian air defense systems shot down a MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Golubovka region of the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as nine Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the Zhovtneve, Boldyrevo, Kovalevka, Petrovka, Dolgenkoye settlements , Kapitolovka of Kharkiv region and Kuibyshevo of Kherson region.
The 24th and 79th Brigades were disbanded
But the Russian airstrikes did not stop. The Russians proceeded to bombardment of terrifying power. According to reports:
– The Russian army destroyed the base of foreign mercenaries near Nikolaev.
-At the same time, the positions of the Ukrainian troops in the direction of Soledar were bombed. The total losses of the 24th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine already amount to about 2.5 thousand people, which is 60% of its strength.
-The 79th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was almost completely destroyed, its losses exceeded 80% of its strength.
-In the area of the city of Artyomovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic, temporary deployment points and ammunition depots of the 14th and 72nd mechanized brigades, as well as the 10th mountain assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, were bombed.
-In the damaged facilities were up to 350 personnel and 20 units of armored fighting vehicles.
In this context, the soldiers of the 80th Airborne Assault Brigade now refused to participate in hostilities
The mercenary base in Nikolaev was destroyed
-On July 7, the 226th battalion of the Ukrainian nationalist formation "Kraken" was ordered to move from Kharkiv to the area of the Pokrovskoye settlement, under the command of the operational group "Soledar". But the administration of nationalists and militants refused to comply with this order.
-During the day, high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed: six command posts, including the 107th battalion of the 63rd mechanized reserve command brigade in the Barmashevo region and two territorial defense battalions in the Nikolaev region.
-Destroyed three weapons and ammunition depots in Artyomovsk, Seversk and Zvanovka regions of the Donetsk People's Republic as well as Ukrainian personnel and military equipment in 14 regions, including a foreign mercenary base in Posad-Pokrovsky, Mykolaiv region, and a center training for units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Ochakov region.
In addition, three platoons of Grad multiple launch systems in the Dzerzhinsk region, four artillery units in the Seversk region, and a platoon of Giacint-B 152 mm artillery were hit at firing positions near the settlement of Gorlovka, Donetsk People's Republic.
-Aircraft, missile forces, and artillery struck enemy manpower and military equipment in 142 areas.
Also, during the day Russian air defense systems shot down: 17 Ukrainian UAVs in Nadezhdovka, Green Guy, Mykolaiv region, Skadovsk, Davydov Brod, Kherson region, Izyum, Nortsovka, Novoplatovka, Dibrovnoe, Brazhkovka,, Small Passages and Grushevka, Kharkiv region.
Six Ukrainian "Tochka-U" ballistic missiles were intercepted in the areas of Skadovsk province, Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region and Grushevka, Kharkiv region, and 12 MLRS in the areas of Chernobaevka, Mykolaiv region, Glinskoye, Izyum, Dolgenkoye, Chervony Oskol, Kharkiv region, Donetsk, Ryaskoyeb, Grasnoyeka, and Oktyabrskoye.
source:
https://warnews247.gr/ektakto-i-cheiroteri-imera-tou-polemou-gia-tin-oukrania-katastrafikan-oi-vretanikoi-harpoon-i-vasi-misthoforon-esvisan-tagmata-taxiarchies-vid/
