MOSCOW, June 15. /TASS/. Russia’s Battlegroup East repelled a Ukrainian  attack near the Oktyabr farm in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), with a Ukrainian tank and a mine-laying vehicle being destroyed by Russian drones, battlegroup spokesman Oleg Chekhov told TASS on Thursday.

"An enemy attack was rebuffed in the nighttime, with tanks, armored combat vehicles and personnel being destroyed. <…> A tank and a mine-laying vehicle were destroyed south of the Oktyabr farm with the use of combat drones," he said, adding that the battlegroup’s artillery hit a Ukrainian M777 howitzer near Timirovka, a tank and troops south of Velikaya Novoselka.