MOSCOW, February 12. /TASS/. Russian forces delivered a strike by precision weapons on the Ukrainian army’s energy infrastructure over the past 24 hours in response to Kiev’s attacks on civilian facilities, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Thursday.

"Over the past 24 hours, in response to the Kiev regime’s terrorist attacks on civilian infrastructure facilities on Russian territory, the Russian Armed Forces delivered a combined strike by ground-based and airborne long-range precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles on energy infrastructure used to support the Ukrainian army’s operations and sites for the production and storage of attack unmanned aerial vehicles. The goals of the strike were achieved. All the designated targets were hit," the ministry said in a statement.

The Ukrainian army lost roughly 1,270 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 210 troops and a Grad multiple launch rocket system in the responsibility area of Russia’s Battlegroup North, roughly 180 troops and three armored combat vehicles in the responsibility area of the Battlegroup West and more than 120 troops and a US-made HMMWV armored combat vehicle in the responsibility area of the Battlegroup South.