MOSCOW. April 1 (Interfax) - Units of the Russian Armed Forces are fighting with Ukraine's 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade over control of the Oktyabr farm, Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov said on Friday.
"Units of the Russian Armed Forces have completed clearing the populated locality of Urozhaine of nationalists and are now fighting with the Ukrainian 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade so as to take control of the Oktyabr farm. They have moved eight kilometers deep over the past day," Konashenkov said at a press briefing on Friday.
"A Ukrainian motorized rifle company reinforced with a tank platoon" has been eliminated in the battle, he said.