In Donbas, Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled fifty attacks and destroyed 18 tanks in a week

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO — SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2022, 21:55

On the Donetsk and Luhansk fronts, the Ukrainian military on Sunday repelled 7 attacks and destroyed 20 pieces of Russian equipment; as a result of Russian shelling, 7 civilians were killed.

Source: grouping Joint forces, operational and tactical group "East"

Quote: "Invaders fired upon more than 20 settlements in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, destroying and damaging 41 civilian objects, including 33 residential buildings, a hospital, a water supply system, a feed mill, a machine-building plant, and an agricultural enterprise.

As a result of these attacks, 7 civilians were killed. Data on the dead and wounded are being updated."

Details: The group's fighters repelled 7 enemy attacks, and fighting continues in two locations.

In the last 24 hours, military personnel of the Joint Forces Group destroyed: 4 tanks; 3 artillery systems; 8 armoured combat vehicles; 3 units of automobile equipment.

Air defence units shot down a Ka-52 combat helicopter and a drone in the sky of the Ukrainian Donbas.

In general, in the last week, military personnel of the Joint Forces group repelled 56 Russian attacks. They destroyed 18 tanks, 34 artillery Systems, 48 armoured combat vehicles, 3 special armoured vehicles and 44 vehicles.

Air defence units shot down two Russian K-52 multipurpose helicopters, two cruise missiles and 16 unmanned aerial vehicles.

In the area of responsibility of the operational-tactical group "East" on Sunday, 43 occupying troops were killed and 1 helicopter and 2 Kamov Ka-50 "Black Shark" attack helicopters were destroyed.