Russia's Vostok group of forces prevented an attack by Ukrainian armed forces in the south Donetsk direction and forced them to retreat, the group's spokesman Oleg Chekhov stated.
"In the Yuzhno-Donetsk direction, advanced units of the Vostok group of forces, with the support of artillery, thwarted an enemy attack in the area northeast of Urozhaynoye. Having suffered losses, the enemy retreated. During the counter-battery fight, a mortar crew was destroyed in the Prechistovka area," Chekhov told TASS.