“More than 230 Ukrainian servicemen, 10 tanks and 23 armored fighting vehicles were destroyed in the Zaitsevo area,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The blow was also delivered to the combat positions of the 58th and 93rd motorized infantry brigades in the areas of Druzhkovka and Artyomovsk.

The head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, said earlier that NATO instructors are present in the combat formations of Ukrainian troops trying to advance in the direction of some settlements in the DPR.