MELITOPOL, November 20. /TASS/. The Ukrainian military has curtailed the use of heavy armor in the Orekhov area in the Zaporozhye Region due to rains and the mud season, Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the We Are Together with Russia movement, told TASS on Monday.

"Bad weather has a strong impact and the Ukrainian army made two attempts over the past weekend to advance with heavy armor but it got stuck in the heavy mud in the Orekhov direction. That is why, most of the attacks [by the Ukrainian military] involved infantry, light and armored combat vehicles for dismounting," Rogov said.

Adverse weather has also complicated the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for reconnaissance and artillery fire adjustment, and also strike and kamikaze drones, he said.

"Now, mostly infantry is at work; that is why, the enemy’s losses are quite big," he explained.

Taking advantage of the bad weather, the Ukrainian army is bringing reinforcements to the frontline: first by railway to the Kiev-controlled part of the Zaporozhye Region and then to the Orekhov direction by vehicles, he said.

Rogov told TASS earlier on Monday that Russian forces had destroyed roughly 120 Ukrainian troops and three armored combat vehicles near the settlements of Rabotino and Verbovoye in the Zaporozhye Region and seized three enemy strongholds over the past day.

The Ukrainian military has been making unsuccessful attempts to advance since June 4. As Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on October 30, the Kiev regime has lost more than 90,000 troops killed and wounded, about 600 tanks and 1,900 armored vehicles over this period. The Russian defense chief stressed that the Ukrainian military had failed to achieve any significant tactical successes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on October 15 that the Ukrainian army’s counteroffensive had completely failed, although Kiev was preparing new offensive operations in some frontline areas.