“In the southern Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok group of forces, with artillery support, thwarted an attempt at an enemy counterattack in the area northwest of Priyutnoye. The Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry was destroyed,” the officer said.

In addition, according to him, attempts to rotate units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Urozhainy area were stopped, enemy vehicles and manpower were destroyed, and during the counter-battery fight, the Ukrainian military lost two mortar crews.

As reported yesterday in Ministry of Defensethe Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 70 military personnel, an infantry fighting vehicle and two vehicles in the Yuzhnodonetsk direction in one day.