MOSCOW, August 18. /TASS/. Russian troops struck deployment sites of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 148 areas over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday.
"Operational/tactical aircraft, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian groups of forces destroyed 16 motor vehicles, up to 100 UJ-22 and Palyanitsa long-range fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles at the site of their preparation for launch, and also struck a training center of UAV operators, fuel lubricants depots that supplied the Ukrainian army with fuel, and temporary deployment areas of Ukraine’s armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 148 locations," the ministry said in a statement.
The Ukrainian army lost roughly 1,400 troops in battles with Russian forces in all the frontline areas over the past 24 hours, according to the latest data on the special military operation in Ukraine released by Russia’s Defense Ministry.
The latest figures show that the Ukrainian army lost over 175 troops and an armored combat vehicle in the responsibility area of Russia’s Battlegroup North, roughly 250 troops, three tanks and seven armored combat vehicles in the responsibility area of the Battlegroup West and more than 245 troops and three artillery guns in the responsibility area of the Battlegroup South.
