MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian troops freed the settlements of Kurakhovka, in the Donetsk People’s Republic, and Pershotravnevoye in the Kharkov region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.
The Ukrainian forces lost up to 2,045 troops in battles with the Russian forces over the past day, including up to 800 in the area of responsibility of Russia’s Yug battlegroup. The group improved its tactical position after repelling a counterattack by a Ukrainian air mobile brigade.
Battlegroup Tsentr of the Russian forces repelled five counterattacks by Ukrainian troops, with Ukraine losing up to 535 military personnel. Ukrainian forces also lost a Grad multiple rocket launcher and an armored personnel carrier, among other pieces of military hardware
