“The personnel of the units of the 72nd mechanized brigade in the Artyomovsk region of the Donetsk People’s Republic, due to heavy losses, low equipment and lack of fire support, refused to obey the orders of the command, left their positions and went to the rear,” the text says.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Ukrainian troops were conducting new unsuccessful attempts at offensive operations in the Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih direction during the day.
On August 31, the Ministry of Defense reported that Russian troops had destroyed more than 1,700 Ukrainian soldiers in two days of unsuccessful attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog and other directions.