MOSCOW, November 19. /TASS/. The Russian armed forces inflicted fire strikes on five brigades of the Ukrainian armed forces over the past 24 hours in the Kharkov region and the Lugansk People's Republic over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

"In the Kupyansk direction, units of the Battlegroup West group of forces together with task air force defeated the manpower and equipment of the 14th, 41st, 43rd, 44th mechanized, as well as the 25th airborne brigades of the Ukrainian armed forces in the areas of the settlements of Petropavlovka, Sinkovka, Ivanovka, Berestovoye in the Kharkov region and Stelmakhovka in the Lugansk People's Republic. Enemy losses amounted to more than 70 military personnel and two vehicles," the ministry reported.