MOSCOW, March 4. /TASS/. Russian troops eliminated more than 70 Ukrainian servicemen and two howitzers in the Kherson Region, the Russian Defense Ministry’s spokesman, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, said on Saturday.

"In the Kherson direction, over 70 Ukrainian servicemen were eliminated and 20 cars, a US-made M777 howitzer and a D-30 howitzer were destroyed in [Russian] gunfire in the past day," Konashenkov specified.