MOSCOW, January 11. /TASS/. Artillery gunners and aircraft crews from Russia’s Battlegroup East disrupted six Ukrainian attempts at rotation in the south Donetsk direction in the past day, Battlegroup East Spokesman Alexander Gordeyev told TASS.

"Bombers, artillery fire and heavy flamethrowers struck temporary deployment positions, strongholds and concentrations of manpower of Ukraine’s 79th Air Assault Brigade near Konstantinovka, Katerinovka and Praskoveyevka," Gordeyev said. "Six enemy attempts at rotating militants were disrupted," he added.