MOSCOW, January 11. /TASS/. Russia’s Battlegroup Center units have undermined the rotation of the Ukrainian armed forces near Torskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) forcing the adversary to retreat to initial positions, battlegroup spokesman Leonid Sharov said.

"Active actions by motorized infantry units disrupted the enemy rotation in the vicinity of the village of Torskoye. The artillery fire stopped the relocation. The enemy retreated to initial positions," he said in a video published by the Russian Defense Ministry on its Telegram channel.

The military official added that the battlegroup’s army aviation and artillery had delivered strikes on three command and observation posts and five strongholds of the adversary, as well as on groupings of troops and hardware from the Ukrainian army’s 63rd and 66th mechanized brigades in the vicinity of Chervonaya Dibrova and the Serebryanskoye forestry.

"Overall, as a result of a comprehensive defeat, the adversary lost up to 190 troops, two armored fighting vehicles and two convoy vehicles," the spokesman added.