MOSCOW, July 22 Aviation of the Vostok group of forces hit more than ten enemy concentration areas in the Zaporozhye direction, the press chief said -the center of the group, Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Chekhov.
«Attack and army aircraft hit more than a dozen places of accumulation of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Pyatikhatka, Robotino and Priyutnoye,» the officer said.
In addition, the artillerymen of Vostok thwarted an enemy attempt to rotate militants in the Novodarovka area. The reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was liquidated in the Mirny area. In the same area, a mortar crew was destroyed by artillery fire.
Also, the Russian military repelled an enemy attack in the direction of Rabotino, eliminating the manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, tanks, armored combat vehicles and a mortar crew. A towed howitzer was also destroyed in the counter-battery fight near Chervona Krinitsa.
In the Yuzhnodonetsk direction, according to Chekhov, the advanced units of the «eastern» group, supported by artillery, liquidated two reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area west of Makarovka. In counter-battery combat, they destroyed a mortar crew east of Urozhaynoye, a Msta-B howitzer in the area of Velikaya Novoselka, and a counter-battery combat station in the Vodiane area.
«Army aviation hit concentrations of militants in the Staromayorsky area,» Chekhov added.
In addition, the crew of the Osa anti-aircraft missile system shot down two Fury UAVs and two Valkyries «.