LUGANSK, October 9. /TASS/. Russian fighters have encircled a Ukrainian battalion task force near Kuzminovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), military expert Andrey Marochko told TASS.

"The Ukrainian armed formations are actually deprived of the opportunity to escape the encirclement in an organized way amid dense fire from our troops," he said.

The enemy got encircled due to "poor troop management and delayed action" by the Ukrainian military command, Marochko explained.

On October 7, the military expert told TASS that the Russian military had penetrated 500 meters deep into the enemy lines northwest of Kuzminovka.