MOSCOW. April 21 (Interfax) - Three Ukrainian ammo depots have been destroyed in the Kharkov and Zaporozhye regions, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.
"Two ammo depots of the 65th Mechanized Brigade and 44th Artillery Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been destroyed near Gulyaipole and Poltavka in the Zaporozhye region," Konashenkov said at a press briefing on Friday.
In the southern Donetsk and Zaporozhye sectors, artillery and heavy flamethrowers from the eastern group of forces hit hostile units in the vicinity of Ugledar and Prechistovka in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Chervonoye in the Zaporozhye region, he said.
The Ukrainian army lost up to 90 troops, two armored combat vehicles, three pickup trucks, and a Msta-B howitzer during the day, Konashenkov said.
"In the Kupyansk sector, tactical aircraft, army aviation and artillery from the western group of forces hit hostile units near Stelmakhovka in the Lugansk People's Republic [LPR] and Sinkovka, Timkovka and Pershotravnevoye in the Kharkov region," he said.
"A Ukrainian ammo depot has been destroyed near Kislovka in the Kharkov region," Konashenkov said.
The operations of four Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups have been neutralized in the Kharkov region and the LPR, he said.
In that area, the Ukrainian army lost more than 60 troops, an armored combat vehicle, three trucks, a D-20 howitzer, and an Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system over the past day, Konashenkov said.
"In the Krasny Liman sector, attack aircraft, army aviation and artillery from the central group of forces hit Ukrainian units near Chervonopopovka and Chervonaya Dibrova in the LPR and Grigorovka and Serebryanka in the DPR," he said.
The Ukrainian army lost more than 55 troops, two armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks, a D-20 howitzer and a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system in that area over the past 24 hours, Konashenkov said.
"In the Kherson sector, aircraft strikes and artillery fire killed up to ten Ukrainian troops and destroyed two trucks," he said.