The military body stated that units of the Western Force Group, after active and decisive actions, occupied the town of Sadovoe in the Kharkiv region.

Meanwhile, combatants from the Eastern Force Group continued morning deep into enemy defenses and stormed the settlement of Kranogorskoe in the Zaporizhzhia region, the military ministry added.

In the city of Kupiansk, in Kharkiv, and Pokrovsk (formerly Krasnoarmeisk), in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Russian Armed Forces are conducting an operation against Ukrainian units that remain surrounded.

Regarding Ukrainian military casualties during the last 24 hours, in the Central and Eastern operational groups, enemy losses exceeded 510 and 265 soldiers, respectively.

These are in addition to more than 230 casualties in the Western operational group, more than 220 in the Northern group, more than 180 in the Southern group, and up to 80 incurred by the Dnieper group.

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