MOSCOW, January 8. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces have lost over 290 servicemen in the Kursk Region over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
"Over the day, Kiev lost over 290 servicemen, a tank, an armored personnel carrier, four armored combat vehicles, four automobiles and three artillery pieces," the report says.
In addition, units of the Battlegroup North defeated formations of four mechanized brigades, a tank brigade, an airborne assault brigade, an assault brigade, two territorial defense brigades, an assault regiment, and a Ukrainian National Guard brigade near Viktorovka, Zazulevka, Kazachya Loknya, Kositsa, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Loknya, Martynovka, Melovoy, Mirny, Russkoe Porechnoye, Sudzha, and Cherkasskoe Porechnoye.
The ministry also noted that strikes from operational-tactical aircraft and artillery fire targeted enemy manpower and equipment in the areas of Veselovka, Guyevo, Daryino, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolayevka, Nikolsky, Novenkoye, Pogrebki, Sverdlikovo, Yuzhny, as well as Belovody, Vodolagi, and Zhuravka in the Sumy Region.
According to it, ukraine's overall losses in Kursk Region exceed 50,000 servicemen.