Battle of Voznesensk

Battle of Voznesensk
	Part of the southern Ukraine campaign of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Date	2–3 March 2022
Location	Voznesensk, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine47°34′21″N 31°18′43″E / 47.57250°N 31.31194°E
Result	Ukrainian victory
Belligerents
Russia	Ukraine
Units involved
Russian Armed Forces Russian Naval Infantry 126th Coastal Defence Brigade; ; Russian Airborne Troops 11th Guards Air Assault Brigade; ; Russian Ground Forces 11th Guards Engineering Brigade; ;	Armed Forces of Ukraine Ukrainian Air Assault Forces 80th Air Assault Brigade; ; Ukrainian Ground Forces 28th Mechanized Brigade; ; Special Operations Forces; Territorial Defense Forces 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade 187th Territorial Defense Battalion; ; ; Irregular civilian volunteers (militia)
Strength
Per Ukraine:; 400 soldiers; 43 vehicles	600 soldiers
Casualties and losses
Per Ukraine:; 100 soldiers killed; 10 soldiers captured; 30 vehicles captured or destroyed; 1 Mil Mi-24 destroyed	43 soldiers killed and wounded
	Per Ukraine:; 10 civilians killed

In early March 2022, a military engagement took place in the small city of Voznesensk, Ukraine, as part of the southern theatre of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

After surrounding the city of Kherson, Russian forces advanced west towards the city of Mykolaiv. While Russian forces attacked Mykolaiv, a Russian column detached and pushed north, engaging Ukrainian forces at Voznesensk. The city was considered strategically significant to Russian forces due to having a bridge across the Southern Bug river and its proximity to the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant.^[6]^[2]

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^ Дмитрий Евчин (22 April 2023). "Бои за юг Украины. Как бригада из Крыма штурмовала Вознесенск". Крым.Реалии (in Russian). Retrieved 13 March 2024.
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^ Юлія Ткач (19 April 2023). "«Мы разбили всю колонну», — боец 28-й бригады рассказал о боях за Вознесенск". НикВести (in Russian). Retrieved 13 March 2024.
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^ ^a ^b "В Миколаївській бригаді ТРО пригадали бій за Вознесенськ та побратимів, які тоді загинули" [In the Mykolaiv brigade of TRO, they remembered the battle for Voznesensk and the comrades who died then]. news.pn (in Ukrainian). 1 March 2023. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
^ "Ukraine's citizen warriors with hunting rifles beat 40 Russian tanks". Times. 27 March 2022. Archived from the original on 5 April 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
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