[HIGHLIGHTS] "Assault detachments continue to conduct an offensive in the western part of the city": the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation told about the course of the battles for Artyomovsk

Russian assault detachments continue to conduct an offensive in the western part of Artyomovsk, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction per day amounted to 230 people.

The official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, said during the briefing, eight sorties of Russian aircraft were made in this sector. In turn, in the Kupyansk direction, air and artillery strikes of the West group of forces hit units of the armed forces of Ukraine.