“As a result of air strikes, more than 150 nationalists, six tanks, four field artillery guns, and two installations of Ukrainian Grad multiple launch rocket systems were destroyed,” said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov.

Rocket troops and artillery hit 62 command posts and 138 artillery firing positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Also, strikes were carried out on 303 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, the ministry said.

In addition, the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed Ukrainian aviation at the Dnepr military airfield with strikes of high-precision air-launched missiles.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov stated that "the situation at the front is difficult."