MOSCOW, December 10. /TASS/. Russian troops thwarted an attack and disrupted a rotation attempt of Ukraine’s 59th Motorized Brigade near DPR’s Novodonetskoye, Battlegroup East Spokesman Oleg Chekhov told TASS.
"Forces of Battlegroup East continue to perform their duties on the southern Donetsk direction. With support of artillery and army aviation, an attack of the 58th Motorized Brigade was thwarted and its personnel rotation was disrupted near Novodonetskoye. Artillery fire hit temporary deployment positions of this brigade near Urozhaynoye, and of the 118th Territorial Defense Brigade near Makarovka," he said.
According to Chekhov, heavy flamethrower systems also destroyed enemy personnel in strongholds near Novomikhailovka, while bombers struck concentrations of Ukrainian personnel and equipment near Praskoviyevka.·"The enemy's losses amounted to up to 80 militants and two vehicles," the spokesman added.