Kiev loses 345 soldiers, 27 armored fighting vehicles in Russian border

The Ukrainian armed forces has lost about 345 soldiers, two tanks, 27 armored fighting vehicles in the Russian border region of Kursk within the last 24 hours.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the Russian Defence Ministry disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday.
According to the ministry, also included are a Tunguska anti-aircraft air defence system, twenty-four motor vehicles, four field artillery guns and two mortars destroyed.
The ministry estimated that since the beginning of hostilities in the Kursk direction, Kiev had lost more than 57,330 military personnel, 331 tanks, 244 infantry fighting vehicles and 192 armored personnel carriers.
The ministry also said that 1,708 armored fighting vehicles and 1,798 motor vehicles had also been lost.
DAILY POST reports that this is coming after Ukrainian drones on Monday struck energy facilities in southern Russia, triggering fires at a major oil refinery and gas processing plant and disrupting flights from the Volga to the Caucasus Mountains.
Russia’s defence ministry said its air defence units intercepted and destroyed 70 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory overnight, including 25 over the Volgograd region, 27 over the Rostov region and seven over the Astrakhan region.
DAILY POST gathered that since Russia sent thousands of troops into Ukraine in 2022, Kiev has tried to fight back against its much bigger neighbour by striking deep into Russia with drones and missiles, and even killing a senior military commander in Moscow.
Russia said the attacks amount to terrorism, are an escalation of the war and that the West aids the attacks with weapons and targeting information.
Kiev loses 345 soldiers, 27 armored fighting vehicles in Russian border