The Russian army lost more than 400 soldiers trying to cross the Seversky Donetsk River in the Luhansk region, The New York Times reported, citing figures from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
The newspaper points out that this battle was one of the bloodiest battles during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“On May 11, Ukrainian artillery destroyed Russian floating bridges as well as Russian troops with their equipment concentrated around them, killing 485 people and destroying more than 80 tanks,” the ISW reported.
A total of 550 Russian troops had been sent to the area to cross the river, with the aim of encircling the Ukrainian armed forces near Rubenzny from the northwest.
The Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform, citing statements by the head of the military administration of the Lugansk region Sergei Gaidai, told the Telegram that 1,000 Russian soldiers had been killed in the fighting and that about 100 tanks and other equipment had been destroyed. «That embarrassing operation in Belogorovka will go down in the history of this war between Russia and Ukraine as their defeat in the Luhansk region. Because the Ukrainian armed forces destroyed almost 100 units of equipment and killed two Russian brigades, which means almost a thousand soldiers“, Wrote Gaidai.
On May 14, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had destroyed floating bridges and a unit of the Ukrainian army “that tried to cross the Seversky Donetsk River.”
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