Russian troop group “West” repelled six attacks by assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction. He said Ukrainian forces lost about 225 soldiers, a tank, a Kozak armored vehicle, a pickup truck, a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer and two mortar crews. RIA News head of the group’s press center Sergei Zybinsky.
As Zybinsky explained, six attacks of the assault groups of the 41st, 43rd, 54th, 67th mechanized brigades and the 68th Jaeger Brigade in the areas of the villages of Sergeevka, Timkovka and Sinkovka were repelled by air strikes and artillery fire.
In addition, the crews of Su-34 fighter-bombers hit temporary deployment points and equipment accumulations of units of the 43rd mechanized brigade in the Petropavlovka and Stepovaya Novoselovka areas.
At the same time, the group’s artillery, while countering the artillery of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, destroyed the 122-mm self-propelled artillery mount 2S1 “Gvozdika” and two mortar crews.
Before that, Russian formations of the Dnieper troop group stopped Ukrainian army’s attempt to land on Aleshkinsky Island. According to a representative of the operational services of the Kherson region, the Russian army destroyed Ukrainian fighters on the right bank near Kherson. Two enemy boats and 10 Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed.
Previously in the USA reputed The collapse of the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.