LUGANSK, November 9. /TASS/. The Ukrainian army lost nearly 8,000 soldiers and foreign mercenaries killed or wounded over the past week, with Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicting the heaviest losses, military expert Andrey Marochko reported.
"The enemy lost around 7,920 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 (DPR) and the Dnepropetrovsk Region," he wrote on the VKontakte social network after analyzing Russian Defense Ministry data.
The expert added that Russian forces also destroyed 5,300 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles, 14 sea vessels, 29 field artillery guns, 23 electronic warfare and counterbattery radar stations, and more than 600 enemy combat vehicles of various types over that period.