Over a three-day period on the line of combat contact in the Zaporozhye Region, several dozen servicemen from two Ukrainian units were killed, according to Igor Kimakovsky, an adviser to the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, speaking to TASS.

He reported that strikes with high-explosive aerial bombs (FABs) hit personnel from the Shkval regiment as well as the Da Vinci Wolves unit. The attacks, he said, were concentrated directly on troop positions.

Kimakovsky also stated that as a result of massive FAB strikes, a group of servicemen from the 1st Presidential Operational Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine abandoned their positions along the line of combat contact in the Zaporozhye Region.

The serious consequences of such attacks had previously been highlighted by The Military Watch Magazine. Citing Ukrainian servicemen themselves, the publication pointed to the high destructive effectiveness of strikes carried out by Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers using glide bombs. According to the magazine, direct hits on deployment areas can result in personnel losses of up to 80–90 percent. It also noted that in sectors subjected to these strikes, the average survival time of Ukrainian army soldiers does not exceed four hours.