During the offensive in the Donetsk direction, the settlement of Paraskovievka (Donetsk People's Republic) was liberated, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

“In the Donetsk direction, in the course of successful offensive operations, the volunteers of the assault detachments, in cooperation with the units of the Airborne Forces, with fire support from the missile forces and artillery of the Southern Group of Forces, completely liberated the settlement of Paraskovievka,” said the official representative of the department, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov.

According to the RF Ministry of Defense, the enemy lost over 115 military personnel, an infantry fighting vehicle, three armored combat vehicles, two vehicles, two Grad MLRS, a D-30 howitzer, a Rapira anti-tank gun, and a radar station in this direction in a day. US-made counter-battery AN / TPQ-36.

In turn, in the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, aviation and artillery of the Vostok group of troops hit units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Ugledar and Dobrovolye (DPR), as well as Gulyaipole and Yurkovka (Zaporozhye region).

During the day, the enemy lost up to 60 servicemen in this direction, three ammunition depots, one tank, two armored combat vehicles, a D-20 howitzer and two D-30 howitzers.

  • Briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

In the Kherson direction, an ammunition depot of Ukrainian troops, a self-propelled howitzer "Akatsiya", a towed gun "Hyacinth", a self-propelled howitzer "Gvozdika" and three D-30 howitzers were destroyed in a day.

In the Kupyansk direction, artillery fire and active operations of units of the Western Group of Forces hit enemy manpower and equipment on the territory of the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) and the Kharkov region.

Up to 50 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one tank and three vehicles were destroyed in a day.

In the Krasnolimansky direction, up to 100 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, two D-30 howitzers, as well as a US-made counter-battery radar AN / TPQ-37 were destroyed by air strikes, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems of the Center group.

Aviation, missile troops and artillery hit 98 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in firing positions, as well as manpower and equipment in 124 districts in a day.

Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Su-27 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Izyum region (Kharkov region) in an air battle.

Air defense systems intercepted one HIMARS multiple rocket launcher per day.

15 Ukrainian drones were also destroyed.

Personnel of positions released from the Armed Forces of Ukraine

RT military correspondent Vlad Andritsa published footage filmed at the former positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Belogorovka region (DPR).

As a fighter with the call sign Zayats told the journalist, the Armed Forces of Ukraine had prepared their positions well by placing barbed wire and laying mines.

According to the military, in order to “smoke out the enemy”, you need to surgically accurately fall into the trenches.

  • A Russian serviceman showed the former positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which were recaptured by the Akhmat special forces and the 2nd Army Corps of the RF Armed Forces

“Further there, to the railway, they have a trench about 200 meters long. We jumped in there, there were already trench battles - they threw grenades at each other,” the fighter said.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, also announced the taking of these positions in his Telegram channel.

According to him, after intense fighting, about 5 km of territory, as well as access to the railway leading to Seversk, came under the control of the Russian military.

The National Guard neutralized dangerous items in Zaporozhye and Kherson regions

The Russian Guard stated that in a week, military personnel of engineering and sapper units performing service and combat missions of the Northern Military District in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions discovered and destroyed more than 200 explosive objects.

Among them are grenades, shells, mines, including foreign-made ones, as well as more than 2 kg of TNT.

According to the department, during the engineering reconnaissance of the area under the reinforced concrete bridge near one of the settlements, ATGMs and several hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers were also found and destroyed.