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Ukraine has lost more than 400 military both killed and injured in the Donetsk and South Donetsk directions over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry stated on Friday.

Alexander Khodakovsky and his battalion were forced to surrender a key Ukrainian village earlier this month.

On the night of 17-18 August, Russian occupiers struck a residential area of Komyshuvakha with two guided aerial bombs. Source: Yurii Malashko, Head of Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram Quote: "There were two strikes with guided aerial bombs on a residential area.

Russian troops struck the village of Virivka in Kherson Oblast, wounding a 17-year-old girl, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported on Aug. 18.

The Russian military launched a missile attack on the city of Zaporizhzhya in the southeast of Ukraine on the afternoon of August 18, as reported by Yuriy Malashko, the head of the Zaporizhzhya Oblast Military Administration.

The officials cautioned that casualty figures remained difficult to estimate because Moscow is believed to routinely undercount its war dead and injured, and Kyiv does not disclose official figures, the newspaper said. The NYT quoted the officials as saying the casualty count had picked up after Ukraine launched a counter-attack earlier this year. Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, commenting on the NYT article, said only the General Staff could discl

Ukraine's counteroffensive started in June. It's targeting Russian assets such as Ka-52 helicopters and self-propelled artillery.

There is mounting evidence that Ukraine has been taking heavy casualties in its counteroffensive, which began roughly ten weeks ago. ABC News spoke with two former U.S. soldiers who are contracted in a special forces division of the Ukrainian military and who were both injured during an operation in eastern Ukraine two weeks ago.

Sergey Surovikin, deputy commander of the joint grouping of Russian troops in Ukraine, has been suspended from his job, placed under house arrest and ordered to keep quiet until his name is forgotten. Source: Politico Details: Politico, citing Russian military bloggers and media outlets, reported that there was no official investigation into Surovikin's actions, but he was placed under house arrest.

KYIV/KUPIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine announced the recapture of the village of Urozhaine from Russian troops in the southeast on Wednesday, but warned the situation on the northeastern front was deteriorating amid Russian counter-attacks. Urozhaine, on the edge of Donetsk region, is the first village Kyiv says it has retaken since July 27, a sign of the challenge Ukraine faces advancing through heavily mined Russian defensive lines without powerful air support. "Urozhaine is liberate...