The spokesman published on his Telegram channel that the Russian aviation attacked Ukrainian strongholds near the villages of Belogorovka, Krasnoye, Kleshievka and Novgorodskoye, while the artillery destroyed three 120mm mortar positions in Verjnekámenskoye and Krasnoye.

Astafiev also reported that an ammunition depot near Belaya Gora and a US-supplied AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station at Avdeyevka were annihilated.

“The command post of the 10th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was hit near Rai-Aleksandrovka,” the spokesman went on to say.

Tornado-S multiple launch systems opened fire on a staging area of Ukrainian troop near the Druzhkovka settlement, a temporary deployment point of the 116th Brigade and a staging area of war matériel at Elizavetovka, Astafiev said.

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