MOSCOW, February 18. /TASS/. Attack and army aircraft of Russia’s Western group of forces defeated enemy units along the Kupyansk frontline in the past day, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov told reporters on Saturday.

"Attack and army aircraft, as well as artillery forces, defeated enemy units near the Novosyolovskoye settlement in the Lugansk People’s Republic and the Zapadnoye, Masyutovka and Krakhmalnoye settlements in the Kharkov Region," he said.

According to Konashenkov, "the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 80 troops, three armored combat vehicles, four cars, a Msta-B howitzer and a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer.".