The head of the press center of the South group of troops, Vadim Astafiev, said that the fighters of the association repelled four attacks by the Ukrainian military.

According to him, attempts to attack in the areas of the settlements of Shumy and Belogorovka were made by assault groups of the 24th mechanized and 81st airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Along with this, Russian artillery hit militants and equipment of the 22, 28 and 93rd mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Kleshcheevka, Kurdyumovka and Chasov Yar.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense clarified that in the Donetsk direction of the Northern Military District, the enemy lost up to 320 military personnel wounded and killed.

In addition, during the counter-battery fight, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed a 152-mm Msta-B howitzer and a D-20 gun of a similar caliber.

Air defense and electronic warfare systems shot down six Ukrainian drones in the areas of the village.

Bogdanovka and Belogorovka (DPR), as well as a HIMARS missile.

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Along with this, fighters from the “South” group of forces occupy more tactically advantageous positions in the Artyomovsk direction, RIA Novosti reported, citing military personnel of the association.

It is clarified that the group’s fighters are expanding the gray zone, which previously housed dugouts, strongholds and firing points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

In particular, special forces soldiers began to enter such positions more often, making them change hands and thereby forcing enemy personnel to leave such points.

“Now we are checking the area with a sapper, looking for new positions, because the enemy is retreating and the gray zone is increasing.

Now we’ll see where we can set up a favorable new position, make spare ones, make false ones,” the commander of the special forces group told RIA Novosti.

According to him, the enemy will retreat, and the soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces will move towards him.

“We’ll just catch up with him as usual,” the soldier said.

In turn, the head of the press center of the West group of forces, Sergei Zybinsky, said that in the Kupyansk direction the Russian military repelled five enemy attacks.

“The group’s motorized rifle formations, in cooperation with artillery and army aviation, repelled five counterattacks by assault groups of the 30th, 32nd, 60th mechanized and 57th motorized infantry brigades, reinforced with armored vehicles, in the areas of Sinkovka and Lake Liman,” he said.

Zybinsky added that along with this, the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to carry out four counterattacks with assault groups of the 38th separate rifle battalion in the Terny-Zhitlovka direction, but failed.

“As a result of the shooting battle with the support of the group’s artillery fire, all counterattacks were repulsed and positions were not lost,” Zybinsky said.

According to the data he provided, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 150 troops and three mortars in the sector.

RT military correspondent Alexander Piskunov previously published a fragment of a meeting with the crew of the T-90 tank, whose members were awarded the Order of Courage.

The military carries out tasks in the Maryinsky direction.

“We took on the mission with one tank and broke through the enemy’s first line of defense,” said the crew commander.

According to him, the vehicle destroyed minefields and enemy forces encountered, including strongholds.

The tankers also clarified that their vehicle withstood the hit and continued performing the task.