MOSCOW, April 2. /TASS/. Russian troops killed up to 15 soldiers and destroyed a self-propelled Akatsiya howitzer of the Ukrainian armed forces in the area of Kherson in a day, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said on Sunday.

"In the course of a fire attack up to 15 Ukrainian servicemen, seven vehicles and one Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer were destroyed in the Kherson area," Konashenkov said.