“Units of the Southern Group of Forces occupied more advantageous positions and defeated the manpower and equipment of the 28th Mechanized, 92nd Assault Brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the 241st Terrorist Defense Brigade,” the department said in a statement.

It is clarified that we are talking about the vicinity of the settlements of Kleshcheevka, Kurdyumovka and Krasnogorovka in the DPR.

In addition, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 340 military personnel, a tank and eight vehicles.

It was also reported that servicemen of the Vostok group, with one salvo from the Grad MLRS, destroyed an Ukrainian Armed Forces hangar in the South Donetsk direction, which contained several American M777 howitzers.