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August 31. Russia’s Battlegroup West repelled six counterattacks by Ukrainian troops in the Kupyansk area in the past day, the battlegroup’s spokesman Yaroslav Yakimkin told TASS on Thursday.

"In the Kupyansk area, forward units of the Battlegroup West repelled six enemy’s counterattacks <…>. The battlegroup’s warplanes delivered 15 strikes on the enemy manpower and vehicles," he said.

According to Yakimkin, Russian artillery and other heavy weapons wiped out three Ukrainian mortar positions near the settlements of Novoyegoryevka, Kulagovka, Tabayevka, and Stelmakhovka. "Air defense systems destroyed two unmanned aerial vehicles, Sinitsa and Leleka-100, near Sofiyevka and Zhiglovka. The enemy’s overall losses amounted up to two platoons," he added.

Russian forces used a Buk-M3 missile defense system to hit a Ukrainian aerial attack weapon threatening Russian vital facilities in the Krasny Liman area, the Russian defense ministry said on Thursday.

"Duty crews of the Battlegroup Center’s systems spotted an aerial target approaching guarded facilities. The crew of a Buk-M3 system fired a guided missile and hit the enemy aerial attack weapon at a long distance," it said, giving no details of the target.

According to the ministry this system destroyed more than 40 aerial targets, including Byaraktar drones and HIMARS rockets.

Russian airborne troops repelled an attack by Ukrainian army west of Artyomovsk, the Russian defense ministry said on Thursday.

"Unmanned aerial vehicles of Russian airborne troops detected areas of deployment of Ukrainian militants in the forest near the city of Artyomovsk. Their coordinates were conveyed to the artillery command post and an artillery strike was delivered. An enemy infantry group trying to find shelter in the forest was neutralized by targeted fire from howitzers. The enemy was demoralized and retreated leaving their dead and wounded in the forest," it said, adding that the attempted counterattack was staged by Ukrainian troops west of Artyomovsk.
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