Ukraine announces the shooting down of 20 marches on the third night of targeting the capital and the dismissal of a Russian brigade.

 The mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, announced that one person was killed and 4 were injured as a result of a Russian bombing targeting the money last night. In contrast, the Ukrainian forces announced the shooting down of 20 Russian marches and two Caliber cruise missiles in the third night of attacks on the capital, Kyiv.

The military administration of Kyiv said that the wreckage of air targets that the air defenses dealt with fell on several buildings. The daylight hours revealed the destruction of a number of the city's buildings, where civil defense teams deployed to remove the rubble and treat the injured.

In a separate statement on Telegram, the Ukrainian Air Force indicated that the 20 Iranian Shahed attack drones were destroyed "primarily in the Kyiv region."

The mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, said that paramedics in the Podilsky district found "the body of a person," two people were wounded in the Darnitsky district and two others in Shevchenkivsky. Two residential buildings, in Shevchenkivsky and Podilsky, caught fire.

On the other hand, the Ukrainian Air Force destroyed two Kalibr cruise missiles overnight, the Air Force announced on Telegram, adding that an "Iskander-M" ballistic missile was launched from Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014.

On the other hand, the Russian military website, Ribar, confirmed that the Russian forces took control of the heights overlooking the city of Bakhmut after a counter-attack, which it described as successful.

The site said that the Russian forces stormed the town of Turskoye, east of the city of Liman, in the Kremnaya axis between Donetsk and Luhansk cantons. He pointed out that the Russian forces were able to repel Ukrainian attacks in the towns of Rabotkpno and Petikhatki in the Zaporizhia axis.

The Russian Air Force also said that it had carried out 8 air strikes on Ukrainian forces on the Kobyansk axis.

For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that its forces repelled the attempts of two Ukrainian brigades to attack Russian positions in the Krasny Lyman axis, and added that its forces used SMERSH launchers and destroyed the gathering centers of Ukrainian forces in the region, in addition to shooting down a Ukrainian march with the "Tor M1" anti-aircraft missile system.

In the same context, a representative of the Kornet anti-tank missile system development team announced that a Russian special forces unit in the south used the remote control complex, known as "Kurgan", for the first time to destroy a bunker of Ukrainian forces.

He explained that the Kornet anti-tank missiles are now able to carry out a new mission, which is to counter air targets.

Kornet anti-tank and armor system is considered one of the most advanced weapons of its kind and has already been used on a large scale and in more than one country. 

The range of these missiles ranges from 150 meters to 10 kilometers, and they are remotely controlled and laser-guided, and they are characterized by their high accuracy.

On the other hand, Russian Telegram channels broadcast a recording of the voice of Major General Ivan Popov, commander of the Russian army unit in Zaporizhia, announcing his dismissal from his post for telling the truth, as he put it.

Popov confirmed that he was dismissed from his post one day after he clarified in his report all the problematic issues that exist in the army in terms of combat work and support.

"The Ukrainian army could not break through our ranks on the front, but our senior commander dealt us a sudden blow and brutally beheaded the army at the most difficult and critical moment," Popov said.

Popov, who took command of the Russian units in southern Ukraine, clearly raised the issue of killing Russian soldiers in Ukrainian artillery shelling and said that the army lacked appropriate counter-battery systems and means of enemy artillery reconnaissance.

For its part, the Ministry of Defense has not commented on this information yet, while verification of the authenticity of the audio clip is underway.

According to Reuters, such public criticism of the Russian military leadership from a commander with great experience in battles indicates the extent of discontent within the Russian army at a time when it is fighting the largest land war in Europe since World War II, and it also comes less than 3 weeks after the attack. Wagner rebelled.

Source: Agencies