Russia's MoD April 1st Special Military Operation Status Update

🇷🇺🇺🇦Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry

▫️Units of the Lugansk People's Republic, continuing their offensive, blockaded the northern outskirts of Kremennaya and the eastern outskirts of Metelkino.

During the night, up to 40 Ukrainian nationalists of 57th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade, 1 artillery battery, 2 IFVs and 4 vehicles of various purposes were destroyed.

💥High-precision air-based weapons destroyed 6 Ukrainian military facilities, including 5 ammunition and missile-artillery weapons depots in Boguslavskoe, Krestishche, Reznikov, Velikaya Novoselka and 1 fuel depot.

💥Air defence means of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down 1 Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter near Lyubimovka and 8 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Lisichansk, Donetsk, Chernigov, Korosun and Novomikhailovskoe, including 1 Bayraktar TB-2 near Vakhovka.

✈️💥Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 52 military assets of Ukraine. Among them: 3 command posts, 3 multiple launch rocket systems, Buk-M1 anti-aircraft complex, illumination and guidance radar of S-300 anti-aircraft missile system, as well as 10 areas of military equipment concentration and 16 AFU strong points.

📊In total, 124 aircfaft and 81 helicopters, 353 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,839 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 202 multiple launch rocket systems, 773 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,711 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.

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