“In the area of the city of Artyomovsk in the Donetsk People’s Republic of the Russian Aerospace Forces, temporary deployment points and ammunition depots of units of the 14th and 72nd mechanized, as well as the 10th mountain assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, were hit.
Up to 350 personnel and 20 units of armored combat vehicles were at the destroyed facilities," the defense ministry said.
At the same time, the ministry noted that against this background, servicemen of the 80th Airborne Assault Brigade refuse to participate in hostilities and desert en masse to rear areas.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the Russian Aerospace Forces launched strikes with precision-guided weapons on the buildings of the Megatex zinc plant in Konstantinovka, as a result of which up to 80 Polish mercenaries were destroyed.