The Russian Ministry of Defense announced a complete blockade of the grouping of Ukrainian forces, as the Russian armed forces besieged the village of Gorskoye, while controlling half of the village of Zolotykh.

“4 battalions are surrounded in the Gorsky cauldron, namely the 3rd battalion of the 24th motorized rifle brigade, the 15th battalion of the 128th mountain assault brigade, the 42nd motorized rifle battalion of the 57th motorized rifle brigade and the 70th battalion,” Igor said. Konashenkov said that from the 101st territorial defense brigade, in addition to the brigade of the artillery group of the 57th motorized rifle brigade, the formation of Ukrainian ultranationalists “Right Sector”, a battalion of foreign mercenaries.

He pointed out that “up to 2,000 people are now blocked in the village of Gorskoye, including 1,800 soldiers, 120 Nazis from the Right Sector formation, up to 80 foreign mercenaries, more than 40 armored combat vehicles, about 80 guns and mortars.

According to Konashenkov, 41 Ukrainian soldiers surrendered over the past day, and, according to these prisoners, the besieged Ukrainian group has exhausted its resources, while the employment of commanders is less than 40%, and the supply has been completely stopped. More than 200 mercenaries, the so-called “soldiers of fortune”, and more than 100 ultra-nationalists were killed in an air raid on three points of deployment of foreign mercenaries in the “Nikolaev” and “Olychki” districts of the Kharkiv region.