Skala Assault Regiment Destroyed in FAB Strikes in Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk Regions
Russian FAB strikes reportedly destroyed most of Ukraine’s Skala regiment in the Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk regions, amid claims of leaked coordinates.
Most of the separate assault regiment «Skala» of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed in Russian airstrikes using high-explosive aerial bombs (FABs) on its positions in the Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk regions, according to Russian security sources.
The sources said the bulk of the regiment was wiped out by FAB strikes across the two regions. Within the unit itself, servicemen reportedly attribute the losses to leaked coordinates and are placing the blame on their own штабное command.
Over the past two days alone, up to a platoon of Ukrainian troops was eliminated in the settlement of Nikolskoye in the Zaporozhye region, the same sources stated.
Earlier, Akhmat special forces commander Lieutenant General Apty Alaudinov, citing intelligence data, reported that the remnants of the 225th separate assault battalion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces — a formation that has informally been referred to in the media as the «death regiment» — were withdrawn from the Sumy region after sustaining heavy losses.