“In the Kupyansky direction, a fire defeat was inflicted at the place of deployment of the company tactical group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Tabaevka, Kharkiv region,” the report says.
65 Ukrainian servicemen, two infantry fighting vehicles and two pickup trucks were destroyed, the ministry added.
As Andrei Marochko, an officer of the People's Militia of the Luhansk People's Republic, said earlier, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are deploying elite brigades to the Krasnolimansk and Kupyansk directions in order to protect their line of defense.