MOSCOW, June 25. /TASS/. Over 300 Ukrainian servicemen and foreign mercenaries and 35 heavy weapons were eliminated with precision strikes near Nikolayev, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov said Saturday.

"In the past 24 hours, over 300 Ukrainian servicemen and foreign mercenaries and 35 heavy weapons were eliminated near Nikolayev," Konashenkov said.