MELITOPOL, December 11. /TASS/. Russian troops have advanced to better positions near the Kiev-controlled settlement of Malaya Tokmachka in the Zaporozhye Region, Chairman of the Civic Chamber Commission on Sovereignty, Patriotic Projects and Support of Veterans Vladimir Rogov told TASS on Wednesday.

"In the area of Malaya Tokmachka in the Zaporozhye Region, our troops have improved their frontline positions and moved forward. In the area of the town of Gulyaipole, they struck Ukrainian artillery guns and their crews," he said.