“In the Zaporozhye direction, as a result of a complex fire engagement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine units by the troops of the Eastern Military District, up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, three vehicles, as well as a combat vehicle of the Grad multiple launch rocket system were destroyed per day,” the ministry’s report says.

Earlier, the chairman of the movement “We are together with Russia”, Volodymyr Rogov, said that a group of Ukrainian saboteurs had been destroyed in the Zaporozhye region near the town of Orekhov.