The spokesman announced that during a series of successful offensives the locality was completely liberated and the enemy lost 115 troops during the fighting.

Meanwhile, in the Krasny Liman region the Russian forces of the Central group eliminated up to 100 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, two D-30 howitzers and a US-made AN/TPQ-37 counterbattery radar, Konashenkov said.

In the Kupiansk sector artillery fire and active operations of the units of the Western troops contributed to the defeat of the enemy’s troops and military equipment in Lugansk and Kharkov.

The Ukrainian troops lost up to 50 troops, the spokesman said.

The Russian Army in Kherson area destroyed Akatsiya and Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers, three D-30 howitzers, as well as a towed gun Giatsint of Ukrainian Armed Forces, the high-ranking officer informed.

Likewise, they inflicted a defeat on Ukrainian units south of Donetsk and in Zaporozhie province, where the enemy lost 60 soldiers, a tank, two armored vehicles, a D-20 howitzer and two D-30 howitzers on the day, the spokesman announced.

Konashenkov also noted that three ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in the areas of Malinovka in Zaporozhie and Ugledar and Vodianoye in Donetsk.

Meanwhile, Konashenkov added, combat aviation shot down an enemy Su-27 aircraft near Izium in Kharkov, and air defense intercepted a Himars shell, as well as 15 drones in different localities of Lugansk, Donetsk and Zaporozhie.