Tanks, Armored Vehicles Destroyed in Russian Artillery Strike on Ukrainian Shipyard

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced an artillery attack on a Ukrainian shipyard that destroyed tanks, armored vehicles and other military equipment.

"As a result of an artillery strike on a hangar on the territory of the Okean shipbuilding plant in the city of Nikolaev, more than 15 Ukrainian tanks and infantry fighting vehicles and 5 large-caliber artillery pieces were destroyed," Russian MoD spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Monday.

Konashenkov said that 62 control points of the Ukrainian army, including the operational command "South" in the area of the settlement of Novy Bug in the Nikolaev region, were hit by Russian missile forces and artillery. He claimed that 593 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the armed forces of Ukraine, 55 artillery and mortar batteries in firing positions were hit by rocket and artillery strikes.

"Four installations of the BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system, 46 weapons and Ukrainian military equipment, as well as an ammunition depot near Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk People's Republic were destroyed," Konashenkov said.

Since the beginning of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February, Russia says it destroyed 183 Ukrainian aircraft, 128 helicopters, 1,064 unmanned aerial vehicles, 325 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,323 tanks and other armored combat vehicles. Also liquidated were 451 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,731 field artillery pieces and a mortar, and 3,294 units of special military vehicles.

Meanwhile, Ukraine says it eliminated 207 aircraft, 174 helicopters, 1350 tanks, 3294 APVs, 6655 artillery systems, 510 UAVs, and other equipment operated by the Russian forces.