The spokesman specified that the Ukrainian military lost up to 50 servicemen and two armored vehicles, and added that the sabotage and reconnaissance actions near the village of Olshana in the Kharkov region were suppressed.

During the confrontation with the enemy attack in the Lugansk People’s Republic, the Center group of troops and aviation hit units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the settlements of Terny, Torskoye, Nevskoye and Chervona Dibrova, the spokesman noted.

In total, the Russian forces annihilated more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen and destroyed two armored fighting vehicles, three vehicles, two D-30 and one D-20 howitzers, as well as a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery unit in that area, Konashenkov noted.

In the Donetsk sector, the units from the southern group of troops successfully repelled five enemy attacks in the Belogorovka, Krasnoye, Severnoye, Pervomaiskoye and Kamenka settlements in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the senior military officer added.

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