“In Zaporizhia, a group of Chechen fighters, who came from criminal terrorist gangs, was destroyed during a pinpoint strike on military targets,” he said.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the Russian Armed Forces had destroyed more than 180 Ukrainian militants in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction.

Also, more than 50 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the Krasnolimansky direction.