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On September 20, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported in the daily briefing that the Kiev regime continues provocations threatening of a nuclear disaster at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
On September 19, five artillery attacks by the Armed forces of Ukraine in a thermal power substation located in the immediate vicinity of the nuclear power plant were recorded. In total, 24 artillery shells were fired from the town of Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region which is under control of the Kiev regime.
As a result of the attacks, one of the technical buildings was damaged. The artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which shelled the territory of the nuclear power plant, were suppressed by return fire of Russian forces.
The radiation background at the Zaporozhye NPP is normal.
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In its daily briefing, the Russian Ministry of Defense also claimed heavy losses inflicted to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in various regions of the country.
As a result of high-precision strikes on the temporary deployment points of the 81st airmobile and 66th mechanized brigades of the AFU near the villages of Chervonyi Oskol and Studenok of the Kharkiv region, the 93rd mechanized brigade in the Bogorodichnoye district of the DPR more than 120 Ukrainian servicemen, three tanks and 12 cars were destroyed.
High-precision strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the temporary deployment points of the 35th Marine Brigade of the AFU and the 114th Territorial Defense Brigade near the village of Novogrigorovka and Novaya Odessa in the Nikolaev region destroyed more than 70 Ukrainian servicemen, over 15 units of special military equipment and vehicles.
Strikes on the combat positions of the Ukrainian 59th Motorized Infantry Brigade near the villages of Ternovka and Andreevka in the Kherson region eliminated up to 100 servicemen and seven armored combat vehicles of the AFU. In addition, the workshops of an armored plant where the military equipment of this AFU unit was repaired were destroyed in the city of Nikolaev.
BMP-2 of the AFU destroyed on Kherson front lines:
During the day, six control points of the AFU near the settlement of Dolina, Tatyanovka, Artemovsk (Bakhmut) in the DPR, Lezhino, Kirovo in the Zaporozhye region, Bereznegovatoye in the Nikolaev region, as well as 49 artillery units, manpower and military equipment in 142 other districts were hit by strikes of Russian aviation, rocket troops and artillery.
Five warehouses of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition were destroyed near Seversk, Katerinovka, Dobrovolye in the DPR, Brahinovka in the Dnipropetrovsk region and Stepnoye in the Zaporozhye region.
A Su-24 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by fighter of the Russian Aerospace Forces near Novozhelannoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
The Russian air defense forces intercepted 12 UAVs near Petrovskoye, Khanzhenkovo, Blagoveshchenka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Molodezhnoye, Priozernoye, Muzykovka, Zelenovka, Posad-Pokrovskoye and Lyubimovka in the Kherson region.
Two US-made HARM anti-radar missiles were shot down near the city of Kherson. In addition, 27 shells of the American HIMARS MLRS, as well as of the Ukrainian Vilkha MLRS were intercepted near Donetsk in the DPR, Chervonopopovka in the LPR, Novaya Kakhovka, Berislav, Verovka, Tomarino and Veseloye in the Kherson region.
In total, since the beginning of the Russian special military operation, 295 aircraft, 155 helicopters, 2007 UAVs, 375 anti-aircraft missile systems, 5038 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 839 multiple rocket launchers, 3403 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 5719 units of special military vehicles of the AFU have been destroyed.
