Russia has increased strikes in the Kharkiv and Luhansk regions in recent days, a Kyiv military official reported.
The number of Russian troops killed since the start of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine has passed 280,000, according to a Thursday announcement from the Ukrainian armed forces.The updated tally comes as a Kyiv military spokesperson told local media that Russia has recently been intensifying its attacks on the front line in Ukraine's eastern regions of Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk.
Newsweek reached out to the Russian Ministry of Defense via email for comment.Illia Yevlash, a spokesperson for Kyiv's Eastern Grouping of Forces, appeared Thursday on a daily news program on Ukraine's 1+1 TV channel, where he discussed the increase of Russian strikes around the cities of Lyman in the Donetsk region and Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region.Lyman and Kupiansk had already been the sites of heavy Russian offensives since the summer.
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