MOSCOW, March 4. /TASS/. Russia’s Western group of forces eliminated more than 90 Ukrainian servicemen in the Kupyansk direction in the past day, according to Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov.

The group’s delivered air and artillery attacks against Ukrainian positions near Novosyolovskoye in the Lugansk People’s Republic and Gryanikovka, Timkovka and Tabayevka in the Kharkov Region, also destroying a tank and six cars, Konashenkov said at a briefing.