Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
✔️ By the morning of March 24, the units of the Russian Armed Forces took control Izyum city in Kharkov region.
✔️ On the evening of March 23 and on the night of March 24, high-precision long-range sea- and air-based weapons attacked military facilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
✔️ As a result of strikes, 13 launchers of anti-aircraft missile systems were destroyed, including 9 S-300 and 4 Buk-M1 in Danilovka, south of Kiev, formation headquarters and missile and artillery weapons depot in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, as well as a temporary deployment point of the nationalist battalion in Lisichansk city.
✔️ Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 60 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Among them: 2 command posts, 2 multiple launch rocket systems, 4 ammunition depots, 47 areas of concentration of equipment and military hardware of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
✔️ Russian Air Defence means shot down 2 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Staraya Markovka and Kharkov.
❗️IN TOTAL, 257 unmanned aerial vehicles, 202 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,572 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 160 multiple launch rocket systems, 633 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,379 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.