The 72nd Separate Mechanised Brigade, coordinated by aerial reconnaissance, directed a mortar unit to strike a group of Russian military engineers in Donetsk Oblast. The resulting strikes destroyed engineering equipment and killed the personnel.
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The 72nd Separate Mechanised Brigade and Border Guard Service killed a group of Russian military engineers in Donetsk Oblast using mortar fire after aerial reconnaissance identified them.
Russian engineering troops were in the area to build fortifications with an excavator, which was destroyed along with the personnel.
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