MOSCOW, August 19. /TASS/. Russian troops delivered an overnight strike by precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), hitting an oil refinery that supplied fuel to the Ukrainian army in the Donbass region, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday.
"Last night, the Russian Armed Forces delivered a combined strike by long-range precision weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles on an oil refinery that supplied fuel to the Ukrainian army in the Donbass region. The goal of the strike was achieved. All the designated targets were hit," the ministry said in a statement.
The Ukrainian army lost roughly 1,370 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 roughly 160 troops, a tank and four armored combat vehicles in the responsibility area of Russia’s Battlegroup North, over 240 troops and seven Western-made armored combat vehicles in the responsibility area of the Battlegroup West and more than 235 troops and an armored combat vehicle in the responsibility area of the Battlegroup South.
