During the fighting, the military spokesman added, the enemy lost 11 infantry fighting vehicles, seven trucks, three transporters, as well as one D-30 howitzer, he also stated that the Russian military destroyed an ammunition depot of the 110th Mechanized Brigade from the Ukraine near Avdeyevka.
In addition, Russian units repelled 10 Ukrainian attacks near Artiomovsk, the senior military officer said, adding that the Ukrainian army continued offensive attempts in Donetsk, Krasny Liman, the southern Donetsk People’s Republic and Zaporozhye.
On the way to the Krasny Liman, Ukrainian units lost up to 130 soldiers, three armored fighting vehicles, two pickup trucks, a “Gvozdika” self-propelled artillery system and two D-30 howitzers, and three soldiers surrendered, Konashenkov said.
Konashenkov specified that the losses of the Ukrainian armed forces in the southern direction of Donetsk and in Zaporozhye in the last 24 hours amounted to more than 170 soldiers, one tank, four armored fighting vehicles, three vehicles, two Msta-B howitzers and two howitzers D-20 and a D-30.
According to the military spokesman, the attacks of the 128th Territorial Defense Brigade in the Priyutnoye region of the Zaporozhye region were repelled by the artillery systems and heavy fire of the Eastern Group of Armed Forces in the southern Donetsk region near the ledge from Vremevka.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian troops launched a Himar missile attack on Kievsky district in downtown Donetsk, killing at least one person and injuring several civilians, local emergency services said.
Likewise, the governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, reported that the anti-aircraft defense system repelled an attack by an unmanned aerial vehicle in a district of the city of Valuiki on Sunday.
Since February 24, 2022, Russia has been conducting a special military operation in eastern Ukraine which, according to President Vladimir Putin, aims to demilitarize and denazify the neighboring country and prevent attacks by the Kiev regime on the republics’ civilian populations. People of Lugansk and Donetsk.
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