Yevgeny Polovodov, head of the press center of the Zapad group of the Russian Armed Forces, said that Russian forces disrupted the rotation of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the transfer of reserves of Ukrainian troops. DEA News.
According to him, “reserve transfer and two rotations of units” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this direction were interrupted.
The officer also said that a Russian tank destroyed two enemy infantry fighting vehicles on the eastern outskirts of Stelmakhovka.
On the eve of the Ministry of Defense of Russia declaration About the defeat of units of the Ukrainian army in the Kharkiv region and the Lugansk People’s Republic.
On March 17, military expert, lieutenant colonel of the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR), retired Andrei Marochko knowledgeableThat the Ukrainian military personnel began to resort to Western-made systems more often in the Kupyansk direction.