Units of the troop group “South” repelled three attacks by the offensive units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the settlements of Avdiivka, Marinka and Alexandro-Kalinovo, located in the Donetsk People’s Republic. (DPR), in one day. This was announced by the head of the group’s press center, Vadim Astafiev, reports TASS.
According to him, the units of the group did not allow them to lose their combat positions.
“The enemy suffered significant losses in manpower and armored vehicles,” Astafyev said.
He also noted that the aviation of the group made two sorties in the direction of Lisichansk and hit the strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Astafyev, the calculation of the 240-mm mortar “Tulip” of the Southern Military District artillery brigade liquidated the ammunition depot of the Ukrainian army near the village of Zvanovka in the DPR, Astafyev continued.
He also noted that as part of the counter-battery struggle, the artillery units of the group destroyed two self-propelled artillery installations, an armored personnel carrier, a 120-mm mortar and an anti-tank missile system.
“The crew of the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system defeated the platoon fortress of the 57th separate motorized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces,” Astafyev said.
He added that the crew of the Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile system in the Peski enclave of the Donetsk People’s Republic shot down a Ukrainian Fury drone.