OREANDA-NEWS Russian aviation has carried out 11 strikes on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Kupyansk direction, the head of the press center of the Zapad group, Sergei Zybinsky, said on Wednesday.

He said that "the artillery crew of howitzers "Msta-B" with high-precision ammunition "Krasnopol" in the area of the settlement of Cossack Lopan destroyed a self-propelled artillery installation of Polish production Krab and the control point of the 206th territorial defense battalion in the settlement of Volchansk."

According to Zybinsky, the fire from the Hyacinth-B cannon in the area of Petropavlovsk destroyed a Ukrainian D-20 howitzer and a mortar crew in the village of Sinkovka.

"A group of special forces using a Lancet barrage ammunition destroyed a 2S1 Gvozdika howitzer near the village of Kutkovka," he said.