According to the Ministry’s telegram channel, units of the central group of troops have successfully occupied the village of Kremennaya Balka in Donetsk with their offensive actions.

The note from the Ministry of Defence states that in the last 24 hours, the enemy losses in the area of operations of the central group amounted to 455 soldiers.

In addition, there were up to 665 in the operational line of the Southern Group, up to 430 in the Western Group, up to 120 in the Eastern Group, up to 65 in the Dnieper Group and up to 55 in the Northern Group.

In addition, Ukrainian troops lost, among other things, three М119 guns, a Swedish Viking armoured vehicle, an HMMWV armoured fighting vehicle.

A military airfield, an unmanned aerial vehicle depot, missile, artillery and ammunition depots were also damaged.

For its part, the Russian air defence system shot down 55 UAVs in one day.

Since the beginning of the special military operation, Russian forces have destroyed a total of 648 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 35,353 UAVs, 585 anti-aircraft missile systems and 19,771 tanks and other armoured vehicles.

They also disabled 1,484 multiple rocket launcher systems, 17,418 pieces of field artillery and mortars, and 28,032 special military vehicles, the Russian defence ministry said.

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