MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - Russian forces have delivered combined strikes on Ukrainian troops near Ugledar and Dobrovolye in the Donetsk People's Republic and Gulyaipole and Yurkovka in the Zaporozhye region, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.
"In the southern Donetsk and Zaporozhye sectors, tactical aviation and artillery from the eastern group of forces have delivered combined strikes on Ukrainian units in the vicinity of Ugledar and Dobrovolye of the Donetsk People's Republic and Gulyaipole and Yurkovka of the Zaporozhye region," Konashenkov said at a press briefing on Monday.
Ukrainian forces lost up to 60 troops, as well as one tank, two armored combat vehicles, a D-20 howitzer and two D-30 howitzers in that area over the day, he said.
"Three ammo depots of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed near Malinovka of the Zaporozhye region and Ugledar and Vodyanoye of the Donetsk People's Republic," Konashenkov said.
"In the Kherson area, gunfire destroyed an Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer, a Giatsint towed cannon, a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, and three D-30 howitzers over the past day," he said.
A Ukrainian ammo depot was hit near the city of Kherson, Konashenkov said.
"In the Kupyansk sector, artillery and intense action of the western group of forces hit hostile troops and hardware near Novosyolovskoye of the Lugansk People's Republic and Masyutovka and Khrakhmalnoye of the Kharkov region," he said.
In that area, the Ukrainian army lost up to 50 troops, one tank and three trucks in the past 24 hours, Konashenkov said.
"In the Krasny Liman sector, aircraft, artillery and heavy flamethrowers of the central group of forces killed up to 100 Ukrainian troops and destroyed two armored combat vehicles, two D-30 howitzers, and a U.S.-made AN/TPQ-37 counter-mortar radar near Yampolovka of the Donetsk People's Republic and Stelmakhovka and Chervonaya Dibrova of the Lugansk People's Republic," Konashenkov said.