The report of the defense department says that Russian army aviation, missile troops and artillery hit units of the 59th motorized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian troops and the 3rd brigade of the national guard of Ukraine in the areas of Pervomaisky and Vasyukovka (DPR).
It is noted that during the day in this direction, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, an armored personnel carrier, two pickup trucks, a Msta-B howitzer and a D-30 howitzer.
It also became known that the Russian group of troops "Vostok" over the past day destroyed more than 65 Ukrainian soldiers in the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions.