“Flowers” and “Rapier”. SVO summary for March 29 | In the world | Policy

The units of the Russian Joint Group of Forces continued active combat operations throughout the day, knocking out enemy equipment and manpower in all directions of the line of contact.

The West grouping has traditionally operated in the Kupyansk direction in the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka, Timkovka, Olshanka and Kislovka in the Kharkov region, as well as Novoselovskoye and Artemovka in the LPR. Over the past 24 hours, more than 35 Ukrainian servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, two cars, as well as a “rare, still Soviet-made, 100-mm anti-tank gun MT-12 Rapira” were destroyed here over the past day with the use of strikes by operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery fire.

Also head of the press center of the “Western” Sergey Zybinsky reports that near the village of Staritsa in the Kharkiv region, an ammunition depot, a communications center and four command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit.

But in the Krasno-Limansky direction, attacks on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were carried out by assault and army aviation, as well as by heavy flamethrower systems and artillery fire from the Center group of troops. According to group representative Denis Averin, here, in the areas of the settlements of Nevskoye, Chervonaya Dibrova (LPR) and Grigorovka (DPR), up to 100 Ukrainian military personnel, two armored combat vehicles, three pickup trucks, and a self-propelled 152-mm howitzer “Acacia” were destroyed per day.

The grouping of troops “South” in the Donetsk direction, as a result of complex fire damage and active actions of ground units, destroyed up to 310 Ukrainian military personnel, two tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles, an armored personnel carrier, nine combat armored vehicles, four vehicles and two howitzers of 152-mm caliber “Msta” during the day -B”. This was reported Ivan Bigma, head of the group’s press center.

In the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, the artillery of the Vostok group inflicted defeat on the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Prechistovka and Vugledar. Total losses of the enemy, according to Colonel Alexander Gordeev, there were more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, two armored vehicles, four vehicles and a 152-mm D-20 howitzer.

In the Kherson direction, up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, three vehicles, a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, and an American M777 artillery system were destroyed by fire damage by Russian forces in a day.

According to the results of March 29, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports on the defeat of 87 artillery positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 118 areas of concentration of enemy manpower and equipment. Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery of groups, as well as air defense systems and small arms were used, with the use of which eight Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed. Also, six HIMARS MLRS shells were shot down during the day.