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MOSCOW, November 20. /TASS/. Ukrainian forces have lost more than 400 troops in the Kursk region in the past day, with 11 Ukrainian soldiers surrendering as prisoners of war, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
In total, the enemy has lost more than 34,390 troops since fighting began in the region.
Russian forces have completed the destruction of a Ukrainian battle group that was blockaded in the area of the Olgovskaya Forest.
TASS has gathered the most important news about the unfolding situation.
Operation to neutralize Ukrainian forces
– Units of the Russian Battle Group North defeated Ukrainian armed formations in the areas of the settlements of Aleksandriya, Viktorovka, Daryino, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Nikolsky, Novoivanovka and Sverdlikovo.
– Russian forces completed the destruction of a Ukrainian battle group that was blockaded near the Olgovskaya Forest.
– Russian operational/tactical and military aircraft and missile forces hit enemy manpower and equipment in the Kursk and Sumy regions.
– The operation to destroy the Ukrainian armed forces is underway.
Ukraine’s losses
– During the day the enemy lost more than 400 troops, six infantry fighting vehicles, including a German-made Marder, four armored personnel carriers, including an American-made M113, a Bogdana self-propelled artillery system, a British-made AS. -90 self-propelled artillery systems, an electronic warfare station and 20 motor vehicles. Eleven Ukrainian soldiers surrendered as prisoners of war.
Since the start of hostilities in the Kursk region, Kiev has lost more than 34,390 troops, 215 tanks, 147 infantry fighting vehicles, 120 armored personnel carriers, 1,190 armored fighting vehicles, 988 motor vehicles, 296 artillery pieces and 40 multiple rocket launchers, including 11 HIMARS and six MLRS of American-made, 13 anti-aircraft missile launchers, seven transport and loading vehicles, 68 electronic warfare stations, 13 counter-battery radars, four air defense radars, 27 pieces of engineering and other equipment, including 13 counter-battery radars, obstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearance vehicle, six armored repair and recovery vehicles , as well as a command and staff vehicle.