MOSCOW, March 14. /TASS/. Russian forces struck about 360 Ukrainian military targets, including 12 enemy strongholds over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Battlegroup Center Spokesman Alexander Savchuk reported on Thursday.

"Over the day, artillery fire and air strikes inflicted damage on about 360 uncovered Ukrainian army targets, including more than 50 temporary deployment sites, 12 strongholds and up to 100 field artillery positions," the spokesman said in a video posted by Russia’s Defense Ministry on its Telegram channel.

Russian bombers, assault and army aircraft delivered about 40 air strikes near the settlements of Novgorodskoye, Kirovo, Leninskoye and Berdychi, he specified.

The Ukrainian military lost as many as 460 personnel, a T-72 tank, 3 command and staff vehicles and 17 motor vehicles. Russian troops also destroyed a Ukrainian ammunition depot and two enemy UAV control posts, the spokesman said.

In counter-battery fire, Russian troops destroyed a British AS-90 self-propelled artillery system, an Msta-B howitzer and a US-manufactured M119 artillery gun, he said.