As stated by the spokesman on his Telegram channel, artillery fire hit Ukrainian positions in the towns of Kislivka, Olshany and Novosiolovskoye, where the nationalists lost over a platoon in personnel and a troop transport.

Zybinski also reported that the helicopter and airplane crews conducted 11 air strikes against a staging area of personnel and matériel belonging to the 14th Independent Mechanized Brigade, as well as against territorial defense units.

In the course of combat operations in the Kupyansk direction, a Su-34 fighter-bomber belonging to the Western group employed missiles against a temporary deployment point of elements of the 103rd Independent Territorial Defense Brigade near the Kovsharovka settlement.

Also, Russian artillery destroyed a foreign-made self-propelled howitzer in the course of counter-battery fire near Peschany, and the crew of a 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer eliminated an enemy mortar position near the village of Berestovoye.

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