Ukrainian armed forces suffered nearly 10,000 casualties in past week, expert says
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Military expert Andrey Marochko reports that Ukrainian forces sustained approximately 9,900 casualties, including foreign mercenaries, over the past week, with the heaviest losses attributed to the Russian Battlegroup East in the Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye regions.
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The report cites data attributed to the Russian Defense Ministry regarding the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Battlegroup East is identified as the primary unit operating in the specified regions.
LUGANSK, August 24. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces’ losses in killed and wounded, including foreign mercenaries, totaled 9,900 personnel over the past week, military expert Andrey Marochko reported.
He stated that fighters of Russia’s Battlegroup East inflicted the heaviest losses on the enemy.
"The enemy’s combat and irrecoverable losses for the week totaled about 9,850 militants and mercenaries, which is 265 more than in the previous reporting period. The greatest losses in manpower were inflicted on Ukrainian armed formations in the area of responsibility of the Battlegroup East, which operates in the Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye Regions," he wrote on his VKontakte page after analyzing data released by the Russian Defense Ministry.
Marochko added that over the course of the week, the Russian military also destroyed a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter aircraft, 8,477 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), two uncrewed boats, 12 marine vessels, three tanks, a Vampire multiple rocket launcher, three Grad multiple rocket launchers, 52 field artillery weapons, 46 electronic warfare and counter-battery stations, as well as more than 600 various enemy combat vehicles.
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- Verification of casualty figures from independent sources
- Specific timeline of equipment destruction
