MOSCOW, January 8. /TASS/. Russia’s armed forces have repelled nine attacks by the enemy in the Kupyansk direction, with the Ukrainian army having lost more than 110 troops and 13 equipment units, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

"In the Kupyansk direction, active actions by the units of the battlegroup West, aviation and artillery repelled nine attacks by assault groups of the 32nd, 43rd and 115th mechanized, the 25th airborne, the 95th air assault brigade of the Ukrainian forces near the settlements of Sinkovka, Ivanovka of the Kharkov Region and Terny of the Donetsk People’s Republic. The enemy’s losses surpassed 110 troops, two tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles, two armored fighting vehicles, three cars, as well as two D-20 howitzers and two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems," the report reads.