Using precision weapons, the command centers of the Kharkov-1 and Kharkov-2 territorial defense battalions were eliminated, the Russian Mindef spokesman, lieutenant-general Igor Konashenkov, added.

Russian forces, he noted, also neutralized a Ukrainian troops’ warfare repair base in the Lisichiansk region, where heavy clashes are taking place for the control of this high point of the southeastern Ukrainian geography.

In addition to being a region located at a strategic elevation, Lisichiansk is the last important point of the Luhansk republic under control of the Ukrainian army.

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