MOSCOW. Dec 6 (Interfax) - Ukrainian forces have lost over 38,485 troops in the Kursk sector to date, including more than 250 in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.
"The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 250 troops over the past day. An infantry vehicle, two armored combat vehicles, and five trucks were destroyed," the ministry said.
Ukrainian casualties have exceeded 38,485 during hostilities in the Kursk sector, it said.
The Ukrainian army has lost 232 tanks, 169 infantry vehicles, 123 armored personnel carriers, 1,230 armored combat vehicles, 1,092 trucks, 308 artillery systems, 40 multiple rocket launchers, 13 air defense missile launchers, seven transporter-loaders, 72 ECM stations, 13 counterbattery radars, four air defense radars, and 27 engineering and other vehicles, the ministry said.
The Russian northern group of forces hit detachments of three mechanized brigades, a heavy mechanized brigade, a tank brigade, three air assault brigades, a marine brigade, a security brigade and three territorial defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Viktorovka, Lebedevka, Leonidovo, Malaya Loknya, Martynovka, Nizhny Klin, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, Novoivanovka, Plyokhovo, Russkoye Porechnoye, and Sverdlikovo, it said.
"Tactical aircraft, army aviation and artillery hit enemy troops and hardware near Guyevo, Kazachya Loknya, Kubatkin, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Leonidovo, Malaya Loknya, Martynovka, Mirny, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Sverdlikovo, and Cherkesskoye Porechnoye, as well as Basovka, Belovody, Glukhov, Zhuravka, Pavlovka and Svessa in the Sumy region," the ministry said.
A Ukrainian self-propelled artillery system has been destroyed in a border district of the Kursk region, it said.
"Air defense of a unit from the northern group of forces detected a self-propelled artillery system of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in a belt of trees in a border district of the Kursk region. Having analyzed the intelligence, it decided to fire at the enemy's self-propelled artillery system," the ministry said.
The system was destroyed by a FPV drone, it said.