Russia claims to have killed 500 Ukrainian soldiers in an attack on a shipyard

- At the end of May, Russia already reported that it had destroyed a hangar at the same shipyard.

- Putin threatens again with the deployment of the Satan II missile and intends to have it ready by the end of the year

A Russian army tank outside Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 29, 2022. / MAXIMILIAN CLARKE

Russia has assured this Wednesday that it has killed 500 Ukrainian soldiers in an attack on the "Okean" (Ocean) shipyard in the city of Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine.

"On June 21, as a result of an attack with high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces, up to 500 servicemen of the 59th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with weapons and military equipment, stationed in the workshops of the Okean plant ", were annihilated, the Ministry of Defense has indicated in its daily war report.

At the end of May, Russia already reported that it had destroyed a hangar at the same shipyard with tanks, infantry vehicles, and large-caliber artillery guns.

According to the military spokesman, Igor Konashénkov, "the enemy suffers significant losses" in the Russian military campaign in Ukraine.

The general added that the battalion of the 57th Motorized Infantry Brigade deployed in three areas of the Lugansk region in eastern Ukraine "has lost more than 60% of its personnel" and the soldiers "refused to obey the order command and abandoned all their positions.

In addition, he asserted, in the area of ​​Nikolaevka, in the Donetsk region, "facing the threat of a defeat of the units of the 14th and 24th Mechanized Brigades, the Ukrainian command evacuated up to 30 wounded and eight American and British mercenaries killed in the night to prevent them from falling into the hands of Russian forces.