“Over 50 percent of the personnel of the 20th battalion of the 93rd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed by the strikes of the operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the Artyomovsk region.

Due to high losses, the battalion’s servicemen arbitrarily left their positions and departed in an unknown direction, ”the department’s Telegram says.

Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry noted that the losses of the 14th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the offensive operations of the allied forces in the Soledar region exceeded 2 thousand people.