Briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense: Russian Federation continue a special military operation in Ukraine.

MOSCOW: Briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense (06/04/2022) The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue a special military operation in Ukraine.

💥 High-precision air-launched missiles hit the artillery training center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Stetskovka, Sumy region. In this center, the arrived foreign instructors carried out practical training for Ukrainian military personnel in the operation and fire control of 155-millimeter M777 howitzers. Also, in the Dachnoye district of the Odessa region, as a result of a missile attack, the deployment point of foreign mercenaries was destroyed.

◽ In addition, 27 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit, as well as two command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, six depots of rocket and artillery weapons, ammunition and fuel in the areas of the settlements of Veseleye, Bakhmut of the Donetsk People's Republic, Disputed, Podlesnoye and Loskutovka of Luhansk People's Republic.

💥 Operational-tactical, army and unmanned aircraft hit 54 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In total, as a result of air strikes, more than 400 nationalists, 20 tanks and armored vehicles, four BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers, nine artillery pieces and 29 vehicles for various purposes were destroyed.

💥 Russian air defense systems in the Odessa region shot down an aircraft of the military transport aviation of the Ukrainian Air Force, which was delivering weapons and ammunition. Also during the day, 17 unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Popasnaya, Varvarovka, Stakhanov of the Luhansk People's Republic, Dementyevka, Volkhov Yar, Mospanovo, Novaya Gnilitsa, Doslipnoye, Bolshie Prokhody, Kapitolovka of the Kharkiv region, Novoaleksandrovka of the Nikolaev region. Including, in the Kamenka region of the Nikolaev region, Russian air defense systems shot down two Bayraktar-TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles.

💥 During the day, missile forces and artillery hit: 33 command posts, 131 firing positions of artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as 542 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment.

📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 187 aircraft, 129 helicopters, 1,104 unmanned aerial vehicles, 328 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,406 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 466 multiple rocket launchers, 1,769 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 3405 units of special military vehicles.