DONETSK, June 7. /TASS/. Five DPR servicemen died in combat with Ukrainian forces in the past 24 hours, and 23 were injured, DPR People’s Militia spokesman Eduard Basurin reported Monday.
"We regret to inform that, in the past 24 hours, five defenders of Donetsk People’s Republic died on duty and 23 were injured," he said, according to DPR Defense Ministry Telegram channel.
Basurin noted that, in the past 24 hours, Ukrainian forces fired over 320 Grad rockets, mortar and artillery shells at DPR territory. The shellings targeted 18 settlements, damaging 23 residential buildings and 8 civilian infrastructure objects. The artillery strikes killed 2 civilians and injured 10.
"In the past 24 hours, joint actions of DPR servicemen and Russian Armed Forces resulted in one destroyed [Ukrainian] T-80 tank, two BMP-2 [armored personnel carriers] and over 80 eliminated servicemen; three firing positions near the settlement of Avdeyevka were suppressed," Basurin noted.