During the day, Russian troops repelled 17 attacks by the Ukrainian army in the Donetsk, Krasno-Limansky, Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, killing nearly 680 Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters and destroying about 40 armored vehicles, artillery and vehicles, Russian media reported, citing a report by the Russian Defense Ministry. The Russian Armed Forces also destroyed three Ukrainian troops' ammunition depots in Donetsk and struck the command post of the 115th mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In the direction of Donetsk, nine enemy attacks were successfully repelled per day in the Belogkorovka, Pervomaisky, Severni, Nevelsky and Krasnogorovka districts of the Donetsk People's Republic. In addition, in the Bakhmut region, three concentrations of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated. Enemy manpower losses in this direction amounted to 290 persons.
In the Krasno-Limansky direction, the Russian Army repelled two attacks by assault groups of the 63rd and 66th mechanised brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Makhevka and Chervona Dibrova regions of the Lugansk People's Republic and defeated the manpower and equipment of four enemy brigades. The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 90 combatants per day.
It is also reported that five attacks by Ukrainian forces were repelled in the direction of the settlements of Staromayorskoe and Urozhayinoe in the direction of southern Donetsk. And in the Makarovka and Priyutnoye districts, strikes were carried out against concentrations of enemy manpower. In the direction of Zaporozhye, an attack by units of the 128th Mountain Attack Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zerebianka region was repulsed.
The total daily losses of the Ukrainian army in these areas amounted to over 300 fighters.
Ukrainian Armed Forces ammunition depots were destroyed near the settlements of Nevelskoe, Druzhkovka and Maksimovka in the Donetsk People's Republic. The command post of the 115th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was also hit in its Rzdolovka district. In addition, an American-made AN/TPQ-50 anti-missile radar was destroyed in the Golobovka area of the Kharkiv region.
During the day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost about 760 fighters in the special operations zone, four tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, one armoured personnel carrier, six armoured vehicles, three US-made M777 artillery systems, Gvozdika self-propelled guns, as well as two Krab self-propelled guns, three Akatsiya self-propelled guns, four D 30 howitzers, two D-20 howitzers, three Msta-B howitzers. In addition, the Ukrainian forces lost two Bukovel electronic warfare stations and a drone control centre.
The Russian Armed Forces stopped the activities of five Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the Zaporozhye and Donetsk regions. Another saboteur group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed in the Ugledar region.
During the day, Russian troops defeated 79 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 109 areas.
Russian air defense forces intercepted six HIMARS missiles and destroyed six Ukrainian drones in the Donetsk, Lugansk, Kharkiv and Zaporozhye regions.
