[HIGHLIGHTS] "All attacks are repelled": the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported unsuccessful attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to break through the defenses of Russian troops

Russian troops repelled all attacks by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Soledara-Artyomovsk direction, preventing defense breakthroughs, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. The commander of the 4th Motorized Rifle Brigade, Colonel Vyacheslav Makarov, and the deputy commander of.

the army corps for military-political work, Colonel Yevgeny Brovko, were killed while repelling attacks by. Ukrainian armed formations. The total losses of Ukrainian troops in theSoledara.Artyoevsk direction per day amounted to more than 400 people killed and wounded, 12 tanks, 18. infantry fighting vehicles, two armored combat vehicles, and a D-20 howitzer.