MOSCOW, November 19. /TASS/. Russian forces struck military-industrial and energy sites in western Ukraine in response to Kiev’s attacks on civilian facilities, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported.
"In response to Ukraine’s terrorist attacks on civilian facilities on Russian territory, this morning the Russian Armed Forces delivered a massive strike by airborne and sea-based long-range precision weapons, including Kinzhal air-launched hypersonic ballistic missiles and attack unmanned aerial vehicles on military-industrial facilities and their energy sites and warehouses of long-range unmanned aerial vehicles in western Ukrainian regions. The goals of the strike were achieved and all the designated targets were hit," the ministry said in a statement.
The Ukrainian army lost roughly 1,340 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 130 troops and an infantry fighting vehicle in the responsibility area of Russia’s Battlegroup North, over 220 troops and four armored combat vehicles in the responsibility area of the Battlegroup West and about 195 troops, a tank and an artillery gun in the responsibility area of the Battlegroup South.
