MOSCOW, July 6. /TASS/. A Ukrainian Giatsint-S self-propelled gun was destroyed by the Russian Battlegroup West’s special taskforce in the Kupyansk area, the battlegroup’s spokesman Sergey Zybinsky told TASS on Thursday.

"During a reconnaissance operation, the taskforce spotted and wiped out an enemy 2S5 Giatnsint-S self-propelled gun with the use of a Lantset loitering munition near the settlement of Lozovaya," he said.

Apart from that, in his words, Russian Mi-28 and K-52 helicopters and Su-25 fighter jets delivered eight strikes on the areas of deployment of manpower and weapons of the Ukrainian army’s 14th mechanized brigade and territorial defense units.