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Military operation in Ukraine

Russian forces destroy over 90 Ukrainian troops in southern Donetsk, Zaporozhye areas

Also two infantry fighting vehicles, two armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks, a Msta-B howitzer and a D-20 howitzer were destroyed

MOSCOW, February 25. /TASS/. Russian forces destroyed over 90 Ukrainian troops and three tanks in the southern Donetsk and Zaporozhye areas in the past day during the special military operation in Ukraine, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported on Saturday.

"In the southern Donetsk and Zaporozhye areas, operational/tactical aircraft and artillery of the battlegroup East delivered a massive strike on the Ukrainian army units near the settlements of Ugledar and Dobrovolye in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Gulyaipole in the Zaporozhye Region. Over 90 personnel, three tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles, two armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks, a Msta-B howitzer and a D-20 howitzer were destroyed in those areas in the past 24 hours," the spokesman said.

In areas near the settlements of Ugledar in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Malinovka in the Zaporozhye Region, two Ukrainian ammunition depots were destroyed, the general added.

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