MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. Russia’s Battlegroup West hit areas of deployment of Ukrainian troops near Timovka in the Kharkov Region, the battlegroup’s spokesman Sergey Zybinsky said on Thursday.

"In the course of combat operations in the Kupyansk area, units of the Battlegroup West, supported by aviation and artillery, repelled 15 attacks by Ukraine’s 14thm 43td, 54th, and 67th mechanized brigades near Sinkovka, Timovka, and Nadiya. Apart from that, Russian troops delivered strikes from heavy flamethrower systems at places of deployment of the 32nd mechanized brigade near Timovka," he said.

He also said that Russian artillery destroyed two Ukrainian Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems and an M777 howitzer near Peschanoye and Krinichki. "The enemy lost more than 145 troops, two armored vehicles, three mortars, two pickup trucks, and one drone," Zybinsky added.