Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko, retired from the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) People’s Militia, said that the Ukrainian army has lost up to 1.5 thousand soldiers in the past in clashes near Artemivske (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut) in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). week. Marochko said this in an interview with a reporter. TASS.
“Ukrainian militants suffered about 1.5 thousand irreversible and about 3 thousand sanitary losses in the Artemovsk region. It is estimated that 20 percent of those injured are seriously injured,” he said.
Earlier, Andrey Marochko, Russian soldiers destroyed A column of Ukrainian military equipment and weapons in the direction of Seversk. According to preliminary information, a battalion-tactical group sent to strengthen positions to deter the Russian offensive was destroyed.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.