In a recent development, the spokesperson for the press center of the Russian forces in the South, Vadim Astafyev, has announced that Russian military units have successfully targeted two brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) in the vicinity of the towns of Kleshcheevka and Kurdyumovka in the Donetsk region.
According to Astafyev, the units of the South grouping, in coordination with aviation and artillery support, have inflicted significant damage to the personnel and equipment of the UAF’s 24th and 93rd mechanized brigades in the area. Overall, the Ukrainian forces have reportedly lost up to 110 servicemen and two infantry fighting vehicles on the Donetsk front.
Astafyev also pointed out that during the counter-battery combat, 120mm mortars were destroyed near the towns of Kleshcheevka and Verkhnekamenskoye.
On November 26, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that units of the East grouping had successfully repelled an attack by a strike group of the UAF on the Southern Donetsk front. The ministry specified that infantry forces were supported by aviation and artillery. Russian fighters managed to repel the attack of the strike group belonging to the 72nd mechanized brigade of the UAF in the area of the settlement of Shevchenko in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and improved their position on the front line.
On November 26, footage emerged of a drone kamikaze destroying an artillery gun of the UAF. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense’s press service, the operators of the unmanned aerial vehicle managed to eliminate the hidden weapon in the forest. They successfully neutralized the artillery piece using the drone kamikaze.
Earlier, a retired lieutenant colonel of the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) pointed out the emergence of panic among the UAF forces.
