Two enemy attacks were repelled by units of the Russian Armed Forces near the settlements of Kremennaya and Kuzmino in the Krasnolimansky direction. Russian units acted with the active support of artillerymen and the army aviation.
Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, announced this at a regular briefing.
Successfully repelled two enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Kremennaya and Kuzmino of the Luhansk People's Republic
- he said.
According to him, Ukrainian troops lost about 140 militants here.
Units of the Kyiv security forces were even more active on the territory of the DPR. Eleven attempts to storm Russian positions by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were reflected in the Donetsk direction. They were undertaken by the Ukrainian military in the area of Maryinka, Mayorsk, Belogorovka, Vodiane and a number of other settlements.
Russian artillery and aviation delivered a number of effective strikes against accumulations of manpower and equipment in Kramatorsk, Konstantinovka and other settlements of the DPR.
The enemy also undertook unsuccessful counter-offensive actions in the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions. For example, in the area of Uspenovka, Zaporozhye region, Russian Armed Forces units repelled an enemy attack and eliminated three groups of enemy saboteurs.
On this sector of the front, Russian aviators and artillerymen distinguished themselves. They defeated the enemy, who was based near Malaya Tokmachka, Rabotino and other settlements.