Last week, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) lost over 1.5 thousand military personnel in the Donetsk direction. This has been officially reported telegram channel Russian Ministry of Defense.
As stated in the statement, during the clashes the Russian Armed Forces disabled 2 Ukrainian tanks and 13 vehicles. In addition, Russian fighters managed to destroy 31 field guns and 16 armored fighting vehicles.
“The enemy’s losses in this direction in a week amounted to more than 1,580 military personnel,” the publication says.
The Ministry emphasized that the wounded are also taken into account when calculating the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Also representatives of the Russian military department saidIt was stated that last week Russian soldiers improved the situation in certain parts of the front towards Donetsk. In total, during this time, the fighters of the “South” force group, with aviation and artillery support, repelled 49 attacks by Ukrainian fighters advancing on the front line.
On December 15, the Russian Ministry of Defense released a video of a captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier. said about the shortage of bullets in the country’s army. According to the Ukrainian fighter, his entire battalion suffered huge losses due to lack of ammunition.
Formerly the army of the Russian Armed Forces destroyed Ukrainian workshop for the assembly and repair of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).