The Russian Armed Forces improved the situation on the front line and at the same time defeated the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). This has been reported press service Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Military clashes took place in the Belogorovka settlements of the Lugansk People’s Republic, as well as in the Bogdanovka, Kleshcheevka, Kurdyumovka and Nevelskoye districts of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
The Russian Ministry of Defense added that the troops repelled four attacks of the assault groups of the 79th air assault and 24th mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This occurred in the settlements of Georgievka, Leninskoye and Novgorodskoye in the DPR.
According to the military unit, enemy casualties amounted to some 360 military personnel. The Ukrainian Armed Forces also lost four armored fighting vehicles, 12 vehicles and the Grad MLRS combat vehicle.
Russian air defense systems on the night of February 17 defended Mariupol Repelling the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR. Advisor to the head of the DPR, Igor Kimakovsky, said that at least four air targets were hit.
The same morning, the Ministry of Defense reported Approximately 33 Ukrainian Armed Forces drones were shot down over regions of Russia.
Formerly in the Russian army came with A new method of moral pressure on the Armed Forces of Ukraine.