MOSCOW, February 24. /TASS/. The enemy has lost up to 240 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks and one M777 artillery system in the Donetsk direction over day. The Russian armed forces also destroyed the Ukrainian command post and ammunition depot near the Donetsk People’s Republic’s settlement of Avdeevka, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov told reporters on Friday.
"In the Donetsk direction, units of the Southern Group of forces inflicted a comprehensive fire attack on accumulations of the enemy's manpower and equipment along the entire line of contact. The losses of the enemy over the day in this direction amounted to 240 Ukrainian soldiers, two tanks, seven armored fighting vehicles, six vehicles, D-20 and D-30 howitzers, D-44 anti-tank gun, as well as one M777 artillery system made in the US," he said.
In addition, he pointed out that the command post and ammunition depot of the Ukrainian armed forces near Avdeevka, in the Donetsk People's Republic, had been destroyed.
Russian forces destroyed an ammunition depot of Ukraine’s 104th Artillery Brigade in the past day, Konashenkov said.
"Over 40 Ukrainian troops were killed along the Kherson frontline in the past day, while a Grad multiple rocket launcher, a Msta-B howitzer, and three D-30 howitzers were destroyed. An ammunition depot of the 104th Artillery Brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces was destroyed near the Vysshetrasovka settlement in the Dnepropetrovsk Region," he noted.