Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Chekhov, head of the press center of the Russian group of troops “Vostok”, said that the group’s troops, with artillery support, disrupted the rotation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the direction of Yuzhnodonetsk. reports RIA News.
According to him, the enemy’s rotation in the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Staromayorskoye districts and north of Priyutnoye was disrupted.
“Manpower and vehicles were destroyed,” the police officer said.
He noted that during the counter-battery battle, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost one withdrawn D-20 howitzer and five mortar crews.
Chekhov also said that the operational-tactical and military aviation, missile forces and artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted fire damage on places where personnel and equipment were concentrated in the units of the 72nd mechanized, 79th air assault, 58th motorized infantry brigades of the Russian Federation. The enemy and 128 1st territorial defense brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are located in the Novomikhailovka, Konstantinovka, Ugledar, Shakhterskoye, Vodyanoye, Sukhie Yaly, Prechistovka, Novodonetskoye, Novoukrainka, Staromayorskoye and Urozhaynoye settlements of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).
“Total enemy losses in this direction were: an electronic warfare station, two armored combat vehicles, a warehouse of military equipment, more than 50 militants and vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the lieutenant colonel said.
Before that Oleg Chekhov reportedHe said that Vostok units occupied more than a dozen strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, improving their tactical positions in the Yuzhnodonetsk direction.
He was previously a fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated About the lack of understanding of the causes of the conflict in Ukraine.