OREANDA-NEWS  The Armed Forces of Russia have destroyed part of a group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the village of Constantinople in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). This is reported by TASS, citing sources in the security agencies.

"In Constantinople, part of the enemy's group has been destroyed, but heavy fighting is taking place in the area," the agency's interlocutors stressed.

Security forces reported intense fighting by the Russian Air Force in the Kurakhovsky direction in the DPR. TASS sources stressed that part of the AFU grouping in the Constantinople area remains in the firing bag.

Earlier, military correspondent Alexander Kots reported on the concentration of UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Krasnoarmeysk (the Ukrainian name is Pokrovsk). According to him, the Ukrainian command has pulled the lion's share of unmanned forces to the Pokrovsky direction in the DPR.