The Russian Ministry of Defense said that Russian paratroopers repelled a counterattack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in one of the directions in the zone of special military operations. It has been reported telegraph channel Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
“Air Force soldiers repelled the counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in one of the special operations areas. <…> Mass targeted fire from light weapons, automatic grenade launchers AGS-17 “Flame” and heavy machine gun “Kord” destroyed the enemy, preventing it from approaching our positions.
The Ministry of Defense also noted that airborne troops equipped a fort in the area previously occupied by Russian assault detachments and destroyed a unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine approaching the positions of the Russian Federation.
On March 16, the Russian army from the Brave group in the NMD region, forced The Ukrainian army will leave its positions in the Krasnolymansky direction.
Previously, the commander of the unit with the call sign Kozyr, the Russian paratroopers in the Luhansk People’s Republic frightened a group of military APUs approaching their position.