In addition, the units of the Eastern group defeated the Ukrainian troops to prevent their offensive actions, and the Russian aviation attacked the sites of military build-up in the areas of Staromayorskoye, Urozhainoye, Novomikhailovka and north of Vladimirivka in Donetsk, the spokesman added.
Reactive artillery hit a checkpoint of the Territorial Defense units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the spokesman revealed.
In the course of the counter-battery fighting, a D-30 towed howitzer was destroyed in the northern part of Novodonetskoye and a mortar unit in the east of Urozhainoye, while a Valkyrie aircraft-type drone was shot down by a Tor anti-aircraft missile system, Chekhov said.
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