Moscow, Sep. 2 (Ministry of National Defense) – According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation as a result of the botched offensive of the Ukrainian troops on 30 August and 1 September, which was mounted at the personal order of president Vladimir Zelensky and under the coordination of Britain Secret Intelligence Service MI6 in the south of Ukraine, the enemy suffered large-scale losses.
The effective actions of the Russian Armed Forces destroyed 63 tanks, 59 infantry fighting vehicles, 48 other armored combat vehicles, 14 armed pickup trucks with heavy machine guns and about 2,000 Ukrainian servicemen during these days.
While repelling the enemy's offensive, Russian Armed Forces routed units of the 128th Ukrainian Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which had been redeployed from western Ukraine. The local authorities declared September 2 as the official day of mourning for the victims of Kiev's military adventure with a "counteroffensive".
More than two thousand wounded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been taken to hospitals of Nikolaev. The city's morgues are crammed with bodies after the failed Ukrainian counter-offensive, they are experiencing huge problems with donated blood. This was stated by the head of the administration of the Russian-controlled Snigirevka of the Nikolaev region, Yuri Barbashov.
For two days of unsuccessful attacks on Nikolaev, Krivoy Rog and other directions, Ukrainian troops lost four combat aircraft: two Su-25, one Su-24 and one MiG-29. Three Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters were shot down.
On September 1, the Kiev regime attempted a major provocation to disrupt the arrival of the IAEA working group at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
Ukrainian artillery is shelling the territory of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant and the meeting place of the IAEA mission with Russian specialists.
On the coast of the Kakhovsky reservoir, three kilometers northeast of the Zaporozhye NPP, the Kiev regime landed two sabotage groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with a total of up to 60 servicemen, trained in the UK, on seven high-speed motor boats. The saboteurs were blocked by the units of the Rosgvardiya, who were guarding the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, and the units of the Russian Armed Forces that came up for reinforcement.
Later, the units of the Russian Armed Forces stopped an attempt to task forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on two self-propelled barges that were sent from Nikopol a few kilometers from the Zaporozhye NPP near the settlement of Vodiane. Both self-propelled barges with tactical landing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were sunk by the Russian Armed Forces.
Currently, the destruction of the sabotage groups has been completed.
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