MOSCOW, March 15. /TASS/. The Russian armed forces have liberated the settlements of Rubanshchina and Zaoleshenka in the Kursk Region over the past 24 hours, the Defense Ministry reported.
"The battlegroup North has liberated the settlements of Zaoleshenka and Rubanshchina," the statement said.
The ministry also emphasized that the Ukrainian armed forces have lost more than 67,600 servicemen in total during the fighting in the Kursk Region, including 220 over the past day.
"Over the day, the Ukrainian losses amounted to more than 220 servicemen, a tank, an infantry fighting vehicle, an armored fighting vehicle, four vehicles, two artillery guns, two mortars, as well as a drone control post and an ammunition depot," the statement said.
In total, during the fighting in the Kursk area, the enemy has lost more than 67,630 servicemen, as well as 393 tanks, 317 infantry fighting vehicles, 283 armored personnel carriers, 2,199 armored fighting vehicles, 2,437 vehicles, 555 artillery guns, 52 multiple rocket launchers, including 13 HIMARS and seven MLRS, 120 electronic warfare stations, 16 counter-battery radars, ten air defense radars, 56 units of engineering and other equipment, including 23 engineering demolition vehicles, a UR-77 demining unit, as well as 15 armored recovery vehicles and a command and control vehicle.