The Russian Defence Ministry said that the Ukrainian military lost up to 220 military personnel and a Leopard tank over the day in the Zaporozhye direction.
“On the Zaporizhzhya direction, units of the Russian grouping of troops…. The losses of the enemy were up to 220 servicemen killed and wounded, two tanks, including Leopard manufactured by Germany, two armoured fighting vehicles and three pickup trucks,” the military ministry said.
At the same time, the ministry added that two US-made M777 artillery systems, a Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery unit (SAU) and an Msta-B howitzer were also hit during the counter-battery battle.
Earlier, it was reported that the Russian Armed Forces destroyed an arsenal of air defence equipment of the Ukrainian army in Cherkasy Region.