MOSCOW April 9 (Interfax) - Russian forces have repelled 11 Ukrainian counterattacks in the Avdeyevka sector and another four in the Donetsk sector in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
"In the Avdeyevka sector, units from the central group of forces improved their tactical positions through active operations and repelled 11 counterattacks by assault groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' 25th Airborne Brigade, the 68th and 71st infantry brigades, the 59th Motorized Infantry Brigade, and the 24th, 47th and 115th mechanized brigades near Pervomaiskoye, Novobakhmutovka, Umanskoye and Berdychi in the Donetsk People's Republic [DPR]," the ministry said.
Another four attacks were repelled in the Donetsk sector, it said.
In the Avdeyevka sector, the Ukrainian army lost up to 240 troops, one tank, three armored combat vehicles, 11 trucks, two 155mm M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery systems, a 155mm M777 howitzer, a 152mm Msta-B howitzer, and a 122mm D-30 howitzer, the ministry said.
"In the Donetsk sector, units from the southern group of forces took better positions and struck troops and hardware of the Ukrainian 79th Air Assault Brigade and the 46th, 53rd and 54th mechanized brigades near Belogorovka in the Lugansk People's Republic and Konstatinovka, Selidovo and Chasov Yar in the DPR. Four counterattacks by detachments of the Ukrainian Fifth and 92nd assault brigades were repelled near Krasnoye in the DPR, the ministry said.
In the Kupyansk sector, units from the western group of forces struck detachments of the Ukrainian 57th Motorized Infantry Brigade and the 14th and 21st mechanized brigades near Sinkovka in the Kharkov region and Terny in the DPR. The enemy lost up to 25 troops, two trucks, a 155mm M777 howitzer, a 105mm M119 howitzer, a 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, and two 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems, the ministry said.
In the southern Donetsk sector, units from the eastern group of forces improved their frontlines and hit detachments of the 58th and 72nd mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the 128th Territorial Defense Brigade near Staromayorskoye and Urozhainoye in the DPR. The enemy lost up to 110 troops, two armored combat vehicles, four trucks, a 155mm FH-70 howitzer, two 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems, a Nota ECM station, and an AN/TPQ-50 counter-mortar radar, the ministry said.
In the Kherson sector, units from the Dnepr group of forces struck troops and hardware of the Ukrainian 65th Mechanized Brigade and the 35th Marine Brigade near Rabotino in the Zaporozhye region and Ivanovka in the Kherson region. The Ukrainian army lost up to 75 troops, one infantry vehicle, five pickup trucks, and two 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems. A drone depot was also destroyed, the ministry said.