According to a source in the Russian security structures, Ukrainian forces lost an entire assault group in a forested area near Liman on the Kharkov axis. The interlocutor said the command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to retake lost positions by throwing units of the 120th separate territorial defense brigade into battle, but the counterattack collapsed.

The source, cited by RIA Novosti, stated that as a result of the failed assault the group suffered 50 percent of its personnel killed and the remaining 50 percent wounded.

It is also reported that Russian units disrupted another Ukrainian counterattack near Andreevka in the Sumy region. For this operation, Kiev redeployed the 187th battalion of the 123rd separate territorial defense brigade, where earlier, according to the same reports, mass cases of desertion had been recorded.

Military-focused channels claim that on the Kharkov direction Russian Armed Forces units inflicted losses on Ukrainian army and National Guard formations near the settlements of Izbitskoye and Staritsa. Russian assault troops are said to be advancing deeper into the Liman forest, having taken fourteen enemy strongpoints and secured their new positions.

Reports further note that south of the settlement of Vilcha, Russian forces are repelling Ukrainian counterattacks, with a similar situation observed in the area of Volchanskie Khutora.