MOSCOW. Aug 7 (Interfax) - Russian forces have repelled Ukrainian attacks in the Zaporozhye, Donetsk, southern Donetsk and Krasny Liman sectors over the past 24 hours, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Monday.
"In the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces unsuccessfully continued attempted offensive operations in the Zaporozhye, Donetsk, southern Donetsk and Krasny Liman sectors," Konashenkov said at a press briefing.
"In the Zaporozhye sector, units of the Russian contingent, supported by aircraft and artillery, repelled three enemy attacks near Uspenovka and Rabotino in the Zaporozhye region. A Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group was neutralized near Novosyolovka in the Zaporozhye region. In addition, Ukrainian units were hit near Yablonevoye and Novodanilovka in the Zaporozhye region," Konashenkov said.
"Up to 80 Ukrainian troops were killed and three armored combat vehicles, four trucks and a D-30 howitzer were destroyed in the past 24 hours," he said.
"In the Donetsk sector, units from the southern group of forces, closely interacting with aircraft and artillery, repelled an attack by strike teams of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' 81st Airmobile Brigade near Belogorovka in the Donetsk People's Republic [DPR]. Concentrations of enemy troops and hardware were hit near Bogdanovka, Vesyoloye, Kleshcheyevka, Maryinka and Krasnogorovka in the DPR," Konashenkov said.
"The enemy lost up to 135 troops, two tanks, six infantry vehicles, three trucks, a U.S.-made M777 artillery system, and Msta-B and D-30 howitzers," he said.
In the southern Donetsk sector, aircraft, artillery and units from the eastern group of forces repelled an attack by the enemy's strike teams near Urozhainoye in the DPR, while army aviation hit five concentrations of troops and hardware of the Ukrainian 31st Mechanized Brigade near Staromayorskoye in the DPR, Konashenkov said.
"In that area, the enemy lost over 225 troops, three tanks, four armored combat vehicles, two trucks and a D-30 howitzer," he said.
In the Krasny Liman sector, units from the central group of forces, aircraft, artillery and heavy flamethrowers repelled an attack by strike teams of the Ukrainian 42nd Mechanized Brigade near the Serebryanskoye forest area. A combined strike on concentrations of enemy troops and hardware was delivered in the vicinity of Raigorodok, Petrovskoye, Ploshchanka and Chervonaya Dibrova in the Lugansk People's Republic.
"Over 65 Ukrainian troops were killed, and two armored combat vehicles and a D-30 howitzer were destroyed," Konashenkov said.
In the Kherson sector, gunfire killed up to 20 Ukrainian troops and destroyed three trucks and two D-30 howitzers over the past day, he said.