In the Kupyansk direction, air strikes and artillery strikes of the Western Group of Forces hit enemy units located in the areas of settlements in the Kharkiv region. This was stated during a briefing by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov.

He noted that in the Kharkiv region and in the LPR, the actions of four Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups were also suppressed.

The enemy in this direction lost up to 65 soldiers, two armored combat vehicles and one pickup truck in a day. An ammunition depot of the 67th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was also destroyed.

In turn, in the Krasnoliman direction, air strikes, artillery and heavy flamethrower systems of the Center group of troops hit enemy units located on the territory of the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics. During the day, up to 80 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two infantry fighting vehicles, as well as a D-20 howitzer were destroyed.

In the Donetsk direction, assault detachments continued to work in the western part of Artyomovsk, the Ministry of Defense noted.

"The airborne troops, operational-tactical and army aviation of the armed forces provide direct support to the actions of the assault detachments to seize the city and stop the enemy's attempts to transfer reserves there," Konashenkov said.

Artillery strikes hit units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of several settlements of the DPR. Over the past day, in the interests of supporting assault detachments in the Artyomovsk area, aviation made nine sorties, artillery completed 62 fire missions.

During the day, the enemy lost up to 360 military and mercenaries, seven infantry fighting vehicles, eight armored combat vehicles, seven vehicles, a D-20 howitzer, as well as two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mounts in this direction.

  • Briefing by the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

On the South Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia fronts, enemy units located in the areas of settlements of the DPR and the Zaporozhye region were hit by airstrikes, artillery and heavy flamethrower systems of the Vostok group of forces.

During the day in these areas, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 120 soldiers, an armored combat vehicle, nine vehicles, D-20 and Msta-B howitzers, as well as an Acacia self-propelled artillery mount.

In the Kherson direction, up to 20 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as one US-made M777 artillery system, were destroyed over the past day.

Aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hit 98 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in firing positions, manpower and equipment in 124 districts.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, a radar targeting station of the Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system was destroyed in the DPR. In addition, 15 Ukrainian drones were shot down by air defense systems during the day.

RT military correspondents - about the situation in the area of Maryinka

RT military correspondent Vlad Andritsa spoke with the military who work in the Maryinka area. According to the commander of the company with the call sign Mozdok, the Russian military "took" all the high-rise buildings and moved to the private sector.

  • The commander of the company with the call sign Mozdok spoke about the fighting in Maryinka

"The whole difficulty in the private sector is that the western part is the most lively, there are a lot of houses and buildings that are even more or less fortified. But nothing, we overcame the five-story buildings and immediately went to the blocks," he said.

According to the soldier, in one of the buildings, the Russian military took two prisoners, both were mobilized in early February. They had no means of communication with other military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

"They had a commander, a Marine sergeant. He just walked away from them, said, "Wait, I've gone to get food." For two days the two of them were there. Then it turned out that they had no connection, and even when they decided that they needed to go to their own, they did not know where to go, "the military said.