MOSCOW, October 3. /TASS/. Ukrainian armed forces’ units encircled in the Kharkov Region have lost up to 35 personnel and three quad bikes over the past 24 hours, Vasily Mezhevykh, head of the press center for Russia’s Battlegroup North, said.

"Ukrainian forces’ losses within the encirclement over the past 24 hours amounted to up to 35 personnel, one armored combat vehicle, one motor vehicle, and three quad bikes," Mezhevykh said.

He noted that the Battlegroup North continues to tighten the encirclement around the Ukrainian formations in the northeastern Kharkov Region and expand the outer zone of control.