Enemy losses in 24 hours totaled more than 80 killed and wounded personnel, four infantry vehicles, three armored vehicles and six pickup trucks, the spokesman said.

In the Kupiansk area, the artillery defeated units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the settlements of Timkovka, Kislovka and Berestovoye in the region of Kharkov, where more than 20 Ukrainian servicemen were killed, and two armored vehicles and three cars were destroyed, Konashenkov noted.

Meanwhile, in the region of Krasny Liman, Russian aviation and artillery shot more than 70 uniformed personnel of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of Ukraine and destroyed three armored vehicles and five pickup trucks, the military spokesman said.

Konashenkov also informed that the Russian aerospace forces brought down an SU-25 and an Su-24 aircraft, as well as two Mi-8 helicopters in different villages of Donetsk.

As the military spokesman explained, two enemy sabotage groups were annihilated in Donetsk and Zaporozhie; and in the Kharkov, Dniepropetrovsk and Zaporozhie oblasts, the artillery destroyed four checkpoints of Ukrainian troops.

Konashenkov added that in the Kharkov settlement of Krugliakovka, Russian units destroyed a firing emplacement, and two US-made M777 artillery systems.

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