MOSCOW, April 2. /TASS/. The Russian armed forces thwarted actions of six Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the Lugansk People's Republic and the Kharkov region, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said on Sunday.

"The actions of six Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups have been stopped in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhovka of the Lugansk People's Republic, Dvurechnaya, Pershotravneve and Sinkovka of the Kharkov region," he said at a briefing on the course of a special military operation.