The Russian Air Force launched sweeping bombing raids in an attempt to contain the Ukrainian counter-attacks in Donetsk-Kherson until the first reinforcements from the partial demobilisation arrive. The Russians focused mainly on the areas where referendums are being held, in Zaporizhzhya and Donetsk, while Ukrainian positions were also hit in Nikolaev to reduce pressure on the Kherson front. The Russians hit the 81st Brigade, the 14th Mechanized Brigade in the Kharkiv region, the 9th National Guard Regiment in the Zaporizhzhya region, as well as command and observation posts of the 2nd and 3rd battalions of the 65th Mechanized Brigade. The Ukrainians count over 600 dead. Heavy bombing in Nikolaev According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the army destroyed the bases of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev region, bombing command posts and ammunition depots. -The air force, missile forces and artillery struck the temporary deployment points of the 59th Mechanized Infantry and the 63rd Mechanized Brigade in the areas of Bezymennoe and Ternovye Pody settlements in the Nikolaev region. Ukrainian casualties amounted to more than 130 servicemen. Hundreds of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and foreign mercenaries were destroyed in the Donetsk territories held by Kiev and in Zaporizhzhya. -Also, four command posts were hit during the day, including the 14th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Dvurechnaya, in the Kharkiv region, the 9th National Guard regiment near the village of Primorskoe, in the Zaporizhzhya region, as well as command and observation posts of the 2nd and 3rd battalions of the 65th mechanised brigade in the areas of the Novoandreevka and Verkhnyaya Tersa settlements, in the Zaporizhzhya region. -74 artillery units, manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in 142 areas. -Three ammunition, rocket and artillery depots were destroyed in the districts of the city of Zaporizhzhya, in the settlements of Monachinovka in the Kharkiv region and Donetskoe in the Donetsk People's Republic of the Donetsk People's Republic. In the area of the Nikiforovka settlement in the Donetsk People's Republic, a Ukrainian Buk-M1 anti-aircraft system was destroyed. -Russian Aerospace Forces fighters shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 in the area of the Novoselovka settlement in the Nikolayev region , and two Su-25s in the areas of the Vesyoloye settlement, Kherson region and Kamyshevka settlement in the Donetsk People's Republic. -Russian air defence systems shot down 19 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of Novaya Kakhovka, Tomarino, Novoraysk, Shlyakhovoe, Miroliubovka settlements, Belyaevka, Kreschenovka, Bruskinskoye and Chkalovo of the Kherson region, Lyubimovka, Trypillya, Vladimirovka, Gornoe, Khartsyzsk , Novoaleksandrovka, Evgenovka, Terny and Krasnaya Polyana of the Donetsk People's Republic. In the areas of Plodovoe and Novaya Kakhovka settlements in Kherson, air defence systems intercepted 42 rockets of the US HIMARS multiple rocket system, as well as the Alder. https://warnews247.gr/sarotikoi-rosikoi-vomvardismoi-se-nikolaef-zaporizie-ntonetsk-pano-apo-600-nekroi-oukranoi-ktypithikan-vaseis-apothikes-kai-theseis-dioikisis/