The Ministry of Defense named the daily losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the special operation zone

Ukraine lost up to 430 military personnel killed and wounded in the Donetsk direction, where Russian forces repelled seven attacks, including at Kleshcheevka and Maryinka, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

“In the Donetsk direction, units of the “Southern” group of forces, in cooperation with aviation and artillery, repelled seven attacks by Ukrainian units in the areas of the settlements of Kleshcheevka, Maryinka, Vodyanoye and Khimik DPR,” the statement says. message.

In addition, the Russian Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction destroyed more than 120 Ukrainian soldiers, and in the Kherson direction, enemy losses per day amounted to 40 people, according to the report of the defense department. In the Zaporizhia direction, as noted in the message, fire damage was caused in the area of ​​​​the village of Verbovoye, the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to up to 30 military personnel. The American M119 howitzer and the British FH70 installation were hit.

In the Kupyansk direction, according to the defense department, up to 20 Ukrainian military personnel were destroyed, and the M777 artillery system was damaged. In the Krasnoliman direction, units of the “Center” group of forces repelled two attacks by Ukrainian forces in different areas of the DPR and LPR with army aviation strikes and artillery fire.

In addition, over the past 24 hours, Russian troops destroyed three enemy ammunition depots in the Kherson region and Kramatorsk DPR, and air defense systems intercepted nine Uragan MLRS missiles and a HIMARS missile, the report says.