The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that about 230 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the operations carried out in the last 24 hours.
The Russian forces killed 170 Ukrainian soldiers on the Donetsk axis and destroyed six armored vehicles," said Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, in a press briefing reported by "Russia Today" news channel, explaining that the Russian forces repelled a number of Ukrainian attacks on the Luhansk axis, where About 60 soldiers were killed.
He pointed out that a depot of ammunition, missiles and artillery weapons of the Ukrainian forces was destroyed in the Zaporozhye region, in addition to the destruction of an oil depot in the Kharkov region that was supplying the Ukrainian units with fuel on the Kobyansk axis.