MOSCOW, June 11. /TASS/. The Yug (South) group of troops successfully repelled the attacks of the assault groups of the armed forces of Ukraine in the Soledar-Artemovsk direction, head of the press center of the group Vadim Astafiev told TASS.
"Subdivisions of the southern group of forces successfully repelled two attacks by assault groups of the armed forces of Ukraine in the Soledar-Artemovsk direction," Astafyev said.
According to him, the group's aviation hit the enemy's strongholds in the area of the settlements of Belogorovka, Krasnoye, Kleshchievka and Novgorodskoye. In turn, the artillerymen destroyed three firing positions of 120-mm mortars in Verkhnekamenskoye and Krasnoye, as well as an ammunition depot in the Belaya Gora area and an AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station in Avdeyevka.
"The command post of the 10th airborne assault brigade of the armed forces of Ukraine was struck in the area of Rai-Aleksandrovka. Also, missile strikes by Tornado-S multiple launch rocket systems were inflicted on the accumulation of enemy manpower in the area of the settlement of Druzhkovka, the point of temporary deployment of the 116th brigades of the territorial defense of the armed forces of Ukraine in the Kalinovka area, on the accumulation of manpower, weapons and military equipment of the enemy in the area of Elizavetovka," the head of the press center said.