Over 120 Ukrainian military staff, two tanks, six armored fighting vehicles and five enemy vehicles were destroyed, the military spokesman assured.

According to a report, the Russian troops wiped out a mechanized company in the area of the Vodiane village and dismantled three sabotage groups in the Pavlovka area.

In the Kupyansk direction, as a result of preventive artillery fire, we defeated a Ukrainian Armed Forces´ motorized infantry company which was moving to attack in the area of the Novoselovskoye of the Lugansk People’s Republic,’ Konashenkov updated.

He also stressed that the Russian defense defused a US-made AN / TPQ-37 counterbattery radar in Minkovka in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic.

Konashenkov confirmed that the situation around the Zaporozhie nuclear power plant is under control despite ‘constant provocations to create a large-scale disaster at that plant’.

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