The official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, at a briefing on the morning of March 31, reported on the successes of the pro-Russian forces and the Russian army waging war against Ukraine.
Konashenkov began his speech by stating that Russian troops had taken control of the settlement of Zolotaya Niva, “crossed the Kashlagach River and secured themselves at an advantageous line.” We are talking about a village in the Donetsk region, in which about 300 people lived before the war. The Kashlagach river near this village is several tens of meters wide.
“The advance for the day was 6 kilometers. Up to 60 Ukrainian nationalists, two tanks, 4 infantry fighting vehicles, 9 vehicles for various purposes were destroyed. Units of the Luhansk People’s Republic, having completed the cleansing of the militants of the Zhitlovka settlement, advanced 5 kilometers and are fighting with the nationalists on the outskirts On the evening of March 30, high-precision air-launched cruise missiles destroyed large fuel bases in the settlements of Dnepropetrovsk, Lisichansk, Chuguev and Novomoskovsk, from which the Ukrainian group of troops in the Donbas was supplied with fuel. four command posts, one S-300 anti-aircraft missile system south of Izyum and one Buk-M1 in the Kurakhovo area, two multiple launch rocket systems, one ammunition depot and rocket and artillery weapons, two fuel depots -lubricants and 38 op mountain point and area of ​​concentration of military equipment. Air defense systems of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the air in the areas of Balakleya, Verbovoye, Verkhnetoretskoye, Dokuchaevsk, Korolenko, Komarin, Skilled, Pavlovka, Repki, Chernihiv, Chernobyl, Shchors, including one “Bayraktar-TB2″ in the Bezymyannoye area,” the Russian Defense Ministry says.
“In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 124 aircraft and 77 helicopters, 216 anti-aircraft missile systems, 341 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1815 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 195 multiple rocket launchers, 762 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,689 units of special military vehicles,” Konashenkov said in today’s report.
According to many military experts, the number of “destroyed” Ukrainian military equipment, indicated in the reports of the Russian Defense Ministry, already in a number of parameters exceeds the real military potential of Ukraine at the beginning of the war. This causes distrust in the reports of the Russian defense department, especially against the background of the ongoing resistance of the Ukrainian army.
Today, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation does not publish new information about the losses of the Russian military.
It should be noted that today Konashenkov did not return to the topic announced the day before that Ukrainian “nationalists” allegedly use the synagogues of Uman to store weapons and ammunition.