In a rare announcement of its losses on the battlefield, Russia on Sunday said that two of its military commanders had been killed in combat near the frontline hotspot of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.
The Russian defence ministry in a statement announced that Vyacheslav Makarov, the commander of the 4th motorised rifle brigade, and Yevgeny Brovko, deputy commander of the Army Corps for military-political work, had been killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine.
As per an AFP report, Russia on Sunday also said that its forces had struck Western arm depots and Ukrainian troops in the western city of Ternopil and the eastern town of Petropavlivka.
As per a Russian defence ministry statement carried by the nation’s news agencies, Russia’s armed forces “delivered a strike with high-precision long-range air and sea-based weapons at the points of deployment of the Ukrainian armed forces.”
“Places of storage of ammunition, weapons and military equipment received from Western countries,” were also struck, it said.
(Developing story. More to follow)
(With inputs from agencies)
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