 The Ukrainian military is effectively destroying Russian troops in the Donetsk region during the offensive. Andre Kovalev, the spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces said this. Units from the occupying 83rd Air Assault Brigade of the Russian Airborne Forces were tasked to move to the area of Gleshevka Donetsk region to replace the occupiers from the 31st Air Assault Brigade who suffered significant losses. During the transition to the first line of defense, many occupants were killed or wounded, Kovalev noted. According to him, the wounded Russian paratroopers were evacuated by helicopters to Rostov-Nadano and from there, due to lack of space in the occupiers' hospitals, they were taken by truck to Novorcherkask. However, medical facilities in this city are also overcrowded.