MOSCOW, January 4. /TASS/. Motor rifle units of the Russian Battlegroup West repelled a counter-attack of assault teams of the Ukrainian mechanized brigade in the Kupyansk direction, Battlegroup spokesman Sergey Zybinsky told TASS.

"In the defense area of a combined arms army, motor rifle units thwarted a counter-attack of assault teams of the 115th mechanized brigade in the vicinity of Sinkovka. The adversary had to retreat southwestward; enemy losses in this direction totaled up to a company of manpower," Zybinsky said.

A Krab self-propelled gun was destroyed near Krinichki settlement and a Furiya reconnaissance drone was downed in the vicinity of Kolomichikha, the spokesman added.