LUGANSK, May 18. /TASS/. Over the past week in the special military operation zone, the Ukrainian military lost more than 6,500 troops killed or wounded, including foreign mercenaries, military expert Andrey Marochko said.
"The enemy's combat losses totaled around 6,785 Ukrainian troops and mercenaries. Ukrainian armed formations suffered the heaviest personnel losses in the area of responsibility of the Battlegroup Center, which operates along the western borders of the Donetsk People’s Republic and in the Dnepropetrovsk Region," he wrote on his VK page, analyzing data from the Russian Defense Ministry.
Marochko added that during the week, Russian forces also destroyed 2,241 unmanned aerial vehicles, 526 automobiles, 81 armored vehicles, 65 field artillery guns, and 44 radio-electronic and counter-battery warfare systems.