LUGANSK, November 2. /TASS/. Ukraine lost 8,300 soldiers and foreign mercenaries killed or wounded over the past week, with Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicting the heaviest losses, military expert Andrey Marochko said.

"The enemy lost around 8,310 Ukrainian militants and mercenaries killed or wounded over the past week. Ukrainian armed formations suffered their heaviest personnel losses in the responsibility area of the Battlegroup Center, which operates in the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Dnepropetrovsk Region," he wrote on VK after analyzing Russian Defense Ministry data.

Russian troops also destroyed 6,900 fixed-wing drones, 11 vessels, 29 field artillery pieces, 52 electronic warfare and counter-battery systems, and nearly 700 Ukrainian combat vehicles of various types over that period, Marochko added.