As the military spokesman reported this Sunday on his Telegram channel, air intelligence in the Zaporozhye area spotted an enemy reconnaissance group near Lugovskoye and destroyed it with artillery. He also destroyed a howitzer with an Msta-B drive near Temirovka.
While three enemy attacks near Rabotyn were repelled, tanks, an armored fighting vehicle and Ukrainian personnel were destroyed in the fighting, the spokesman said.
Chekhov added that a tank, several Bradley armored fighting vehicles and a pickup truck were killed near Malaya Tokmachka.
Army planes hit a tank and armored fighting vehicles near the settlement of Novodanilovka and north of Priyutnoye, a concentration area of Ukrainian forces. The senior official stated that an Osa system shot down a Ukrainian Furia drone.
While in the southern area of Donetsk, units of the eastern group of troops with the help of artillery prevented an enemy attack north-east of Urozháinoye. The enemy suffered casualties and retreated. “A mortar unit was destroyed near Prechistovka,” the spokesman said.
Chekhov specified that the eastern group’s aviation reached Ukrainian units in the cities of Staromayorskoye and Urozháinoye.
Since February 24, 2022, Russia has been conducting a special military operation in Ukraine, the aim of which, according to President Vladimir Putin, is to protect the population from “genocide by the Kiev government”.
It is also about addressing the risks to national security posed by the eastward advance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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