MO: Russian Armed Forces have taken new advantageous frontiers in the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions

This was reported in the Russian Defense Ministry.

They added that a mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian army was destroyed in the area of ​​Vuhledar.

In just one day, up to 65 servicemen were lost in these directions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Earlier, the commander of the Akhmat special forces, the deputy commander of the 2nd Army Corps of the People's Militia of the LPR, Apty Alaudinov, said that the situation in Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) was close to the operational encirclement.