Azov Special Operations Forces target Russian tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and almost 40 military personnel near the Russian border in Kharkiv region

Anatoliy Sydorenko, commander of the Azov Kharkiv Special Operations Forces detachment, reported this on Telegram.

"Minus three personnel cars, seven BMP-2 units, two T-72B3 tanks and 37 Russian invaders - the result of a successful operation by the Azov Special Operations Forces in the village of Varvarivka, Vovchanskyi district, Kharkiv region," Sydorenko wrote.

The Ukrainian defenders destroyed the equipment of the Russian invaders with high-precision artillery fire. 

For reference. Azov Special Operations Forces are a separate unit of the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine. It was formed on March 9, 2022 on the basis of the territorial defense unit Azov, which began to be created in Kyiv from the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. The unit took an active part in the defense of Kyiv.

On March 10, together with the 72nd brigade of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, they ambushed and defeated a column of the 6th tank regiment of the 90th tank division of the Russian Army in the vicinity of Brovary near the village of Skybyn. Intercepted negotiations of Russian officers proved that the Russian Armed Forces lost almost an entire regiment, and its commander, Colonel Andrey Zakharov, was killed.

As a result of significant losses, the Russians were forced to stop advancing towards Kyiv and retreat.