MOSCOW. Sept 8 (Interfax) - Ukrainian forces have mounted 12 attacks in the Donetsk sector, including those near Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.
"In the Donetsk sector, units from the southern group of forces backed by aircraft and artillery have repelled 12 attacks by units from the 3rd Assault Brigade, the 77th Airmobile Brigade and the 110th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the 241st Territorial Defense Brigade near Andreyevka, Artyomovsk, Orekhovo-Vasilevka and Vesyoloye in the Donetsk People's Republic," Konashenkov said at a press briefing on Friday.
Four trucks, two M777 artillery systems, a D-20 howitzer, a Rapira anti-tank gun and a Bukovel-AD anti-drone station of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed, he said.
"A command and observation post of the 110th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has been destroyed near Avdeyevka in the Donetsk People's Republic," Konashenkov said.
In the Zaporozhye sector, Russian units repelled five attacks by assault groups from the 82nd Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Verbovoye in the Zaporozhye region in the past 24 hours, he said.
"In the Krasny Liman sector, units from the central group of forces interacting with army aviation and artillery repelled two attacks by assault groups from the 63rd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Chervonaya Dibrova in the Lugansk People's Republic," Konashenkov said.
Units from the 12th Special Ops Brigade and the 21st Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were struck near Serebryanka and Yampolovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, he said.
One Ukrainian attack was repelled in the southern Donetsk sector, and a field ammo depot of a Ukrainian unit was destroyed near Novodonetskoye, Konashenkov said.
"Gunfire killed over 25 Ukrainian troops and destroyed three trucks and a Msta-B howitzer in the Kherson sector over the day," he said.