Ministry of Defense: APU lost up to 250 soldiers per day in the Donetsk direction

Assault detachments, with the support of paratroopers, artillery and aviation, continued offensive operations in the Donetsk direction over the past day, as a result of which the Ukrainian side lost up to 250 servicemen, the daily reads. summary Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

“Successful offensive actions of assault volunteer detachments continue in the Donetsk direction with the support of units of the Tula formation of the Airborne Forces, assault aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces … Enemy losses per day in this direction amounted to 250 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded,” the message says.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine also lost five armored combat vehicles, a D-20 howitzer and an ammunition depot of the 68th Infantry Jaeger Brigade in this direction.

Offensive actions were also carried out by units of the “Center” group of troops, which, with the support of artillery and heavy flamethrower systems, hit the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Stelmakhivka and Nevsky in the LPR and Yampolovka in the DPR. In this direction, the Ukrainian side lost more than 135 soldiers, two Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers and one D-20 howitzer.

In the Kupyansk direction, units of the “Western” group of troops attacked enemy positions in the Novoselovsky district in the LPR and Masyutovka in the Kharkiv region, destroying up to 40 Ukrainian soldiers.

In the Yuzhnodonetsk and Kherson directions, the Russian Armed Forces continued to inflict artillery strikes on positions and batteries of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Ministry of Defense also announced an attack on the point of temporary deployment of a unit of foreign mercenaries near the village of Memrik in the DPR.

February 20 Ministry of Defense reported about taking control of the village of Paraskovievka, located north of Artemovsk (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut) in the DPR. On February 17, Evgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Wagner PMC, announced the capture of Paraskoviyivka.

Russia’s special operation in Ukraine began on February 24. Russian President Vladimir Putin called the protection of the inhabitants of Donbass, as well as the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, its goals. During the special operation, Russian troops took control of the LPR, as well as most of the DPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. Subsequently, these territories became part of Russia, and on October 19 martial law was introduced in the regions.