“At the beginning of this week, one of the Chechen units came under shelling.

This happened in the Kherson region... 23 fighters died,” Kadyrov wrote on Telegram.

According to him, another 58 were injured, of which four were seriously injured.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier that the losses of the UAF militants in battles are 7-10 times higher than Russian ones.

The deputy head of the Kherson region, Kirill Stremousov, announced the heavy losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in strength and equipment in the Kherson direction.