The General Staff did not clarify the information about where exactly the Russian fighter was destroyed and whether the pilot survived.
Within 24 hours, Ukrainian defenders destroyed a Russian Su-25 fighter and an Orlan-10 operational-tactical UAV. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced this in a report on the evening of Friday, October 13.
“During the day, Defense Forces aviation carried out 12 strikes on areas where enemy personnel, weapons and military equipment were concentrated and on a bridge. Our defenders also destroyed a Russian Su-25 fighter and an Orlan-10 operational-tactical UAV,” the message said.
Units of the missile forces inflicted defeats on the control point, the place where personnel, weapons and military equipment were concentrated, an ammunition depot and an enemy electronic warfare station.
The General Staff did not clarify the information about where exactly the Russian fighter was destroyed and whether the pilot survived.
During the day, 68 clashes took place on the front. Russian troops carried out two missiles and 39 air strikes, and carried out 24 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on Ukrainian troop positions and populated areas.
In the direction of Kupyansk, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled 12 enemy attacks in the areas of Sinkovka, Ivanovka and Kislovka in the Kharkov region. In addition, the Ukrainian military repelled enemy attacks in the Makeevka area of the Lugansk region.
In the direction of Avdeevka, our defenders bravely hold the line, repelling 10 enemy attacks in the area of Avdeevka settlement and more than 15 attacks in Keramika, Tonenky, Pivnichny, Pervomaisky, Netaylovy district of Donetsk region.
In the Maryinsky direction, during the day the Defense Forces successfully repelled about 10 enemy attacks in the Maryinka area of the Donetsk region.
At the direction of Shakhtarsky, the Russians conducted unsuccessful attack operations with aviation support in the area of the village of Staromayorskoye, Donetsk region. In the direction of Zaporozhye, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to restore the lost position in the Rabotino region of the Zaporozhye region.
At the same time, the Ukrainian Defense Forces continued to carry out an offensive operation in the direction of Melitopol, offensive actions (attacks) in the direction of Bakhmut, which caused damage to the occupying forces in manpower and equipment , depleting the enemy along the entire front line.
Let’s recall that since the beginning of the war, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 285,920 people. In the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces liquidated 1,030 invaders.
Source: korrespondent
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