MOSCOW. Sept 24 (Interfax) - The Russian Armed Forces have delivered strikes on Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region and the Ukrainian army's reserves in the Sumy region, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
"Army aircraft and artillery fire struck concentrations of troops and hardware of the 21st, 22nd, 41st, 61st and 115th Mechanized Brigades, the 17th Tank Brigade, the 80th and 95th Air Assault Brigades, the 36th Marine Brigade and the 1st National Guard Brigade, as well as the 112th and 129th Territorial Defense Brigades near the communities Bogdanovka, Guyevo, Ivashkovsky, Zazulevka, Kurilovka, Kolmakov, Lyubimovka, Makhnovka, Martynovka, Mikhailovka, Malaya Loknya, Malaya Obukhovka, Medvezhye, Novaya Sorochina, Novy Put, Novoivanovka, Pravda, Plekhovo, Russkoye Porechnoye, Tolsty Lug, Cherkasskaya Konopelka, and Yuzhny," it said.
Meanwhile, Russian tactical aviation and missile forces delivered strikes on areas of concentration and reserves of the Ukrainian 21st and 41st Mechanized Brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 95th Air Assault Brigade, 1st National Guard Brigade, 1004th Guard Brigade and 103rd and 129th Territorial Defense Brigades near the communities of Belopolye, Bruski, Bunyakino, Vorozhba, Volkovka, Kazachye, Kislaya Dubina, Malushino, Mazeyevka, Novaya Sloboda, Pavlovka, Partizanskoye, Rechki, Svoboda, Solyaniki, Shalygino, and Ugroyedy in the Sumy region, it said.
A Lantset loitering munition launched by the Russian northern group of forces destroyed a Bogdana howitzer of the Ukrainian army in the Sumy region by, it said.
"Aerial reconnaissance systems of a unit of the northern group of forces detected the movement of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Bogdana howitzer in the Sumy region. Having analyzed the available reconnaissance data, it was decided to carry out a strike on the enemy's 155mm self-propelled artillery system," it said.
On Tuesday, the Defense Ministry also published video footage showing the Lantset loitering munition hitting the Ukrainian howitzer.