The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that two US-made counter-battery radar stations were destroyed near the settlements of Novgorodskoye and Artemovo in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).
According to the agency, on the day of the engagement in the Donetsk direction, two combat armored vehicles, eight vehicles and a D-20 howitzer were destroyed. The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to more than 340 soldiers and mercenaries.
Former Ministry of Defense reportedThat Russian attack aircraft continued the offensive in Artemovsk (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut) and within 24 hours occupied two more blocks in the northwestern and western parts of the city. According to the agency’s description, the attack aircraft were supported by Air Force units, which squeezed the enemy into the flanks.
Also, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the attacks of operational-tactical and army aviation in the Donetsk direction, artillery fire from the troop group “South” defeated units of the 57th motorized infantry and 80th air assault brigades of the Armed Forces. In the Ukrainian residential areas of Bogdanovka and Stupochka Donetska People’s Republic (DNR).