"The enemy has lost up to 290 military personnel, two armored combat vehicles and two vehicles. In addition, a US-made 155-mm M198 howitzer, a UK-made 155-mm FH70 towed howitzer and three 122-mm D-30 howitzers were hit in counter-battery fighting. Three field ammunition depots of the Ukrainian armed forces were destroyed in a day," the ministry said, specifying that fighting took place near DPR villages of Kalinina, Orekhovo-Vasilevka, Konstantinovka, Zaliznyanskoye and Pershe Travnya.
Ukraine also lost 125 soldiers in battles with Russia's Vostok (East) group of forces, as well as a tank, six vehicles, a US-made 155-mm M198 howitzer and a Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery mount, the ministry stated.
Russia's Dnepr group of forces eliminated up to 70 Ukrainian soldiers and destroyed a US-made 155-mm М777 howitzer, a 152-mm Msta-B howitzer, a 152-mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery unit, a 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery unit and a US-made M119 gun, according to the ministry's statement.