The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Saturday the downing of 95 drones and the elimination of 545 Ukrainian soldiers across various combat fronts.

According to a statement reported by the Russian news agency Sputnik, Russian warplanes, drones, missile forces, and artillery attacked transport facilities, fuel and energy infrastructure used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, weapons and military equipment storage sites, and temporary deployment locations of Ukrainian forces and foreign mercenaries in 148 areas. Air defense systems shot down 95 fixed-wing drones.

The ministry indicated that units from the “Northern” group eliminated formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the towns of Bysarivka, Novaya Sich, Moghrytsia, Oleksiivka, and Varachino in the Sumy region.

In the Kharkiv axis, Ukrainian forces were targeted in the towns of Vovchansk and Dvorichansky, where Ukrainian losses reached up to 165 soldiers, a tank, an armored combat vehicle, and 13 cars. An ammunition depot and four supply warehouses were also destroyed.

Units from the “Western” group took control of important sites and lines in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region. Enemy losses reached up to 210 soldiers, three armored combat vehicles, 24 vehicles, two cannons, and ten electronic warfare stations. Four ammunition depots were also destroyed.