The head of the press center of the “West” group of troops, Ivan Bigma, said that during the work in the Kupyansk direction, three attacks by units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repelled.

“The group’s motorized rifle units, in cooperation with artillery and aviation, repelled three attacks by assault groups of the 57th motorized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the Senkovka railway station and Lake Liman,” he said.

Along with this, during the counter-battery fight, the operators of the Lancet loitering ammunition destroyed four artillery pieces, including the US-made M198 and M777 towed howitzers, the Giatsint-S self-propelled gun and the 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled gun.

In addition, the air defense systems of the group of forces destroyed nine Ukrainian drones, including five Leleki-100 units, three Furies and a Valkyrie.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the enemy lost up to 30 militants, four artillery pieces, three mortar crews, two armored personnel carriers, an armored combat vehicle, nine UAVs and three vehicles in the Kupyansk direction.

The Ministry of Defense also spoke about the work of individual branches of the military in different areas of the special operation.

Thus, in the Avdeevsky direction, the crew of the 152-mm self-propelled artillery mount 2S3 “Akatsiya” of the “Center” group destroyed tracked vehicles, as well as a concentration of nationalist personnel.

“After receiving the target coordinates from the reconnaissance unit, which conducts continuous air surveillance of the movements of Ukrainian Armed Forces units using UAVs, the crew of the self-propelled gun aimed the gun, after which it fired a series of shots with 152-mm high-explosive fragmentation shells,” the department said in a statement.

It is clarified that objective control means recorded an accurate hit and destruction of enemy tracked vehicles.

In addition, in the Krasnolimansk direction, a strike group of army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit enemy personnel and strongholds.

As the Ministry of Defense clarified, the group includes the Ka-52 Alligator reconnaissance and attack helicopter, the Mi-35M transport and combat helicopter and the Mi-8 multi-purpose helicopter.

From the department's message it follows that the crews carried out an attack with unguided S-8 aircraft missiles from the closest possible distance in difficult weather conditions.

“Today the task was set to destroy the enemy UAV control center.

The flight was uneventful, the targets were destroyed, and the helicopter did not fail.

Upon exiting the attack, the onboard defense system notified the crew of the Stinger launch.

The onboard defense complex launched heat traps and deflected the missile,” the Ministry of Defense quotes the words of one of the pilots.

It is also reported that in the Artyomovsky sector of the front, the FPV strike drone crews of the Trans-Baikal paratroopers destroyed wheeled vehicles with Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and a drone control center in the Chasov Yar area.

It follows from the message that the operator of the FPV drone brought the device to a vehicle with Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel.

“After loitering, the crew of the FPV drone accurately hit the wheeled vehicles, leaving the nationalists not a single chance of survival,” the department said.

In addition, an enemy UAV control center located in one of the buildings was destroyed in a similar manner.