MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Russian forces are continuing an offensive in the Donetsk sector, and a Ukrainian army depot has been destroyed in the Artyomovsk area, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a press briefing on Monday.
"In the Donetsk sector, the ongoing offensive of units from the southern group of forces supported by aircraft strikes and fire of artillery and heavy flamethrowers has killed over 250 Ukrainian troops and has destroyed two tanks, four armored combat vehicles, five trucks and a D-20 howitzer in the past 24 hours," Konashenkov said.
"An ammo depot of the 72nd mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was hit in the area of Artyomovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic," he said.
"Additionally, a U.S.-made AN/TPQ-37 counter-mortar radar was destroyed near Novomarkovo in the Donetsk People's Republic," Konashenkov said.
In the southern Donetsk and Zaporozhye sectors, "units from the eastern group of forces delivered combined strikes on Ukrainian forces near Ugledar, Nikolskoye and Prechistovka of the Donetsk People's Republic and Zelyony Gai in the Zaporozhye region," he said.
"In those areas, the enemy lost up to 95 Ukrainian troops, alongside one tank, three armored combat vehicles, one truck, three pickup trucks and a D-20 howitzer over the day," Konashenkov said.