The military spokesman told Sputnik that during the fighting in Katerinovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Eastern battlegroup located and destroyed the Ukrainian troops’ howitzer.
Gordeyev also noted that a Russian Smerch multiple rocket launcher blew up an ammunition depot and six Ukrainian military trucks near Kurakhovo in western Donetsk region.
The spokesman further reported that a Russian Msta shell caused 15 fatal casualties to the troops of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and destroyed a military vehicle near Guliaypole, Zaporizhzhia oblast.
Russia has been conducting a special military operation in eastern Ukraine since February 2022 to stop the Ukrainian shelling of civilians in Donetsk and Lugansk.
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