Russian troops have taken full control over the settlement of Ocheretino in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Russian Defense Ministry said in its daily report.
"As a result of active operations, units of the "Center" group of forces completely liberated the settlement of Ocheretino in the Donetsk People's Republic, improved their tactical position and defeated formations of the 24th and 115th mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Arkhangelskoye and Novgorodskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic," the ministry said.
Speaking about other developments within the framework of the special military operation, the ministry said that Ukrainian troops lost another Abrams tank in the area of responsibility of the Russian Center group of forces.
In addition, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed a Western-made missile weapons warehouse in Odessa, as well as a fuel warehouse and rocket fuel production workshops, the ministry noted.
As for the other loss of equipment by the Ukrainian military, the defense ministry said that Russian air defenses shot down 20 Ukrainian UAVs and two Hammer guided bombs in one day.
Apart from that, the Russian "West" group of forces improved the situation along the front line, repulsed six attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the "Dnieper" group of forces hit concentrations of manpower of three brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine within a day and repelled one counterattack, according to the ministry.
A day earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry revealed that the Ukrainian armed forces have suffered over 5,100 military casualties in the DPR in the past week as a result of operations by the southern, central and eastern groupings of the Russian Armed Forces.