Russian attack helicopters strike Ukrainian brigades, troops repel counterattacks

Russia’s attack helicopters have carried out successful air strikes against two Ukrainian brigades, while their ground forces thwarted four attacks by Ukrainian sabotage groups in the Kupyansk region, military officials said.

“In combat in the Kupyansk area, the crews of Ka-52 and Mi-28 assault helicopters and Su-25 fighter jets of the Battlegroup West carried out 11 air strikes on nine areas,” the battlegroup's spokesman Sergey Zybinsky declared as quoted in a Sunday report by TASS news agency.

According to Zybinsky, the areas targeted by the attack helicopters are “where manpower, weapons, military and special equipment and personnel of [Ukraine’s] 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade and the 103rd Separate Territorial Defense Brigade were amassed.”

He further added that Russian forces prevented four attacks by Ukrainian subversive groups in the Kupyansk area and neutralized the rotation of Ukrainian troops over the past day.

“The group’s artillery thwarted four attempts by the Ukrainian military to rotate troops at forward positions near the settlements of Dvurechnoye, Sinkovka, and Novosyolovskoye,” he also noted.

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