MOSCOW, December 7 – RIA Novosti. The Russian army stopped attempts to attack in the Kharkov region of Kiev and in the LPR in the Kupyansk direction, declaration At the Russian Ministry of Defense on Wednesday.

“Preemptive artillery fire, air strikes and heavy flamethrowing systems of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of Kupyansk, in the Olshana, Kislovka, Berestovoye and Novoselovskoye settlements of the Kharkov region, on the manpower and equipment deposition of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Republic, thwarted the enemy’s attempts to attack the positions of the Russian troops,” he says.

About 70 Ukrainian soldiers, an infantry fighting vehicle, an MT-LB carrier, two 2S-1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mounts and three vehicles were reported destroyed.