LPR People’s Militia retired Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko said that last week Russian troops destroyed more than two thousand soldiers and foreign mercenaries of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) in the Luhansk direction. It has been reported TASS.
“According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, about 2,300 Ukrainian militants and mercenaries were destroyed in the tactical direction of Luhansk last week,” Marochko said.
In addition, Russian forces destroyed 70 cars and vans, 24 various armored combat vehicles, three tanks, 58 howitzers and rocket launchers belonging to the Ukrainian army.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine on June 4 started A large-scale offensive in five sectors of the front in the south-Donetsk direction, but they did not succeed. The ministry added that as a result of the actions of Russian troops, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to more than 250 people.