[HIGHLIGHTS] Attempts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to conduct reconnaissance by combat were thwarted: the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation told about the work of troops in the SVO zone

The Russian military in the course of work in the South-Donetsk direction thwarted three attempts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to conduct reconnaissance by combat. In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed two sabotage and reconnaissance groups.

The crew of the Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile system shot down the Ukrainian Valkyrie drone. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said earlier that the VostokAkhmat battalion thwarted an attempt by Ukrainian troops to advance in the Zaporizhia direction.