 Russia said Thursday its forces continue to destroy Ukrainian artilleries on multiple locations, while the armed forces of Ukraine claimed it repelled Russian attacks from different settlements. The Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Kanašenkov said Thursday that the Russian Army eliminated Ukrainian military equipment including armoured vehicles and Howitzers in directions of Kupyansk, Krasnyi Lyman, Donetsk, South Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kursin. In Lysychansk, three Ukrainian fighting vehicles equipped with grad-multiple-launch rocket systems were neutralized by the Russian Army. Russian air defense facilities shot down four rocket-propell projectiles, launched by Hamar's multiple-launch rocket systems and five Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Lugansk, Kharkov region and Kursin region. The armed forces of Ukraine general staff reported Thursday that Ukrainian forces repelled Russian attacks from 14 settlements near Donetsk and Lugansk. Ukrainian missile and artillery units struck a Russian control point, three assembly points and a fuel depot. And Ukraine for the first time confirmed that it destroyed a new type air defense system of Russia in Kursin region.