The Ukrainian group consists of about 2,000 people, including 1,800 soldiers and 120 militants belonging to the extremist Right Sector Movement, and up to 80 foreign fighters.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated that it had killed more than 200 foreign fighters and about 100 nationalist militants in an air raid on 3 points of concentration of foreign fighters in the Mykolaiv and Kharkiv provinces.
The S-300 missile system was also destroyed in the Odessa region, using the Bastion missile system.
The Russian air defense also shot down two Su-25 aircraft in areas of the Kharkiv and Mykolaiv provinces.
It is expected that the two main cities in the Lugansk region will fall into the hands of Russian forces in the coming hours.
Fighting also continues in the industrial city of Severodonetsk, north of the Lugansk region, where the Russian army is making progress and is approaching “full control”.
On Friday, the governor of the Lugansk region Serhiy Gaidai said that Ukrainian forces “will have to withdraw” from the city of Severodonetsk, which is mostly occupied by Russian forces.
. added Gayday In comments broadcast on Ukrainian television: “Ukrainian armed forces will be forced to withdraw from Severodonetsk. She was ordered to do so.”
He continued, “Staying in sites that have been reduced to rubble over several months just in order to stay there does not make sense.”
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