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Heavy battles are ongoing on the Donetsk front lines. While Russian forces are destroying Ukrainian units on the western outskirts of Maryinka, the AFU attempt attacks in the area of Avdeevka.
In the Donetsk direction, eight attacks of the AFU were successfully repelled by the Russian military over the past day, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported. Ukrainian forces failed to break through Russian defences.
The “southern” grouping of Russian troops successfully repelled eight attacks by units of the 110th Mechanized, 1st Tank, 59th Motorized Infantry and 79th Airborne assault brigades of Ukraine in the directions of the settlements of Novobakhmutovka, Krasnogorovka, Pervomaiske and Maryinka during the day.
During the fighting, the AFU suffered the following losses:
- up to 310 Ukrainian servicemen,
- two tanks,
- two infantry fighting vehicles,
- two armored fighting vehicles,
- two cars,
- three pickups,
- two Msta-B howitzers,
- as well as a D-30 howitzer.
Russian military sources shared footage of Ukrainian attack in the Avdeevka region. The group of Ukrainian servicemen on American armored vehicles approached Russian military positions south of Nevelskoe.
In the stronghold of one of the companies of the Donetsk Army Corps, a Russian servicemen is seen fearlessly fighting the advancing Ukrainian forces. The fate of the Russian warrior is unknown.
While the Ukrainian military continues large-scale attacks on the southern front lines in the Zaporozhie region, heavy battles continue along all the Donbass front lines, where the AFU continue escalating the fighting. They attempt to distract the Russian military and clame at least some victories.
