The head of the press center of the Vostok group, Oleg Chekhov, said that when hit by the Solntsepyok flamethrower systems, the point of temporary deployment of the militants was destroyed.

"The crews of the Solntsepyok flamethrower systems destroyed the point of temporary deployment of nationalists in the Gulyai-Polye area," Chekhov said.

In addition, in the Pivdenno-Donetsk direction, artillerymen of the Vostok group destroyed enemy manpower and a warehouse. Along with this, the strongholds of the nationalists in the area of Vremevka, as well as the points of temporary deployment of the enemy in the area of Velyka Novoselka and Poltavka, were hit. In addition, a mortar crew was destroyed in the area of Novomikhailovka.

According to Chekhov, the calculations of the Grad MLRS hit manpower at the positions of the territorial defense brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Poltavka. According to him, the Lancet loitering ammunition destroyed an artillery installation, an armored combat vehicle and a car.

  • Statement by the head of the press center of the Vostok group, Oleg Chekhov

According to the head of the press center of the Vostok group, in the Zaporozhye direction, the fire of the Malka self-propelled gun and the calculations of the Uragan MLRS hit two points of temporary deployment of militants in the Huliaipole area. As Chekhov specified, an ammunition depot, vehicles and manpower were destroyed.

In the course of aerial reconnaissance, two ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novodanilovka and Malaya Tokmachka were opened and destroyed by artillery fire. Along with this, a militant stronghold in the area of Novoandriivka was hit. During the counter-battery fight, the D-30 and Msta-B howitzers were destroyed.

According to the head of the press center of the Center group, Oleksandr Savchuk, in the Krasnolimansky direction in the Serebryansky forestry area, the Russian military prevented four attempts to attack the 67th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

"As a result of a small arms battle with the support of army aviation, the enemy withdrew, having suffered significant losses," Savchuk said.

Along with this, Su-34 fighter-bombers hit six strongholds of Ukrainian troops with guided high-explosive aerial bombs. In turn, the air defense systems of the Center group hit an enemy drone in the area of the village of Ploshchanka.

The head of the press center of the Zapad group, Sergei Zybinsky, said that during the fighting in the Kupyansk direction, artillery destroyed three enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups from the 103rd separate territorial defense brigade in the Novoselovsky area. According to the Russian military, the enemy's losses amounted to a platoon of manpower.

During the counter-battery struggle in the defense zone of the 1st Panzer Army, an enemy D-30 artillery gun in the Berestove area and an ammunition depot in the Kislovka area were destroyed.

In addition, the crews of Su-34 fighter-bombers and Ka-52 and Mi-28 attack helicopters launched missile and bomb strikes on temporary deployment points and areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment of the 14th and 92nd separate mechanized brigades and territorial defense units.

The calculations of the Thor anti-aircraft missile system destroyed three enemy drones - two Furies and one Elf.

The head of the press center of the "South" group, Vadim Astafyev, said that the division of the Iskander operational-tactical complex of the missile brigade of the Southern Military District hit the ammunition depot of the 90th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Druzhkovka area.

In addition, in the Oleksandrivsk-Kalinovsky direction, the group's aircraft attacked the command and observation post of the temporary deployment of the third battalion of the 24th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

During the counter-battery fight, a 122 mm caliber gun of the 2A65 Msta-B type and a Uragan MLRS combat vehicle were destroyed.

Along with this, the artillery of the 1st Army Corps of the Southern Military District thwarted an attempt to rotate units of the 1st Mechanized Battalion of the 110th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at a stronghold in the Avdiivka area.

Shelling of Donbas cities

Meanwhile, over the past day, the Ukrainian military opened fire 47 times on the territory of the DPR, the republic's representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) said. In total, 364 units of various ammunition were fired at the cities of the DPR.

Several districts of Donetsk, as well as Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, Makeyevka, Aleksandrovka, Staromykhailovka and Kirillovka, were under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

As a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one civilian was killed, five more people were injured. 16 residential buildings and three civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged.