❗️Highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry Press Briefing, April 22:

▪️The Russian army hit Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries' temporary deployment sites in 141 areas

▪️Russian troops liberated the community of Sukhaya Balka in the Donetsk region over the past day

▪️Russia’s air defenses downed 99 Ukrainian drones and three JDAM bombs

▪️Ukraine lost over 310 military personnel and four armored combat vehicles in Russia’s Battlegroup Center’s responsibility area in the past 24 hours

▪️The Ukrainian army lost over 70 military personnel in Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr’s responsibility area in the past day

▪️Russia's Battlegroup North inflicted up to 40 casualties on the Ukrainian army and destroyed the enemy’s electronic warfare station in the Belgorod direction over the past day

▪️Ukraine lost up to 170 military personnel in Russia’s Battlegroup East’s responsibility area in the past 24 hours

▪️Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicted up to 250 casualties on the Ukrainian army in the past day

🕔 Developments in Russia’s Kursk Region:

▪️Russian forces inflicted over 160 casualties on the Ukrainian army in the Kursk area over the past day

▪️As many as four Ukrainian servicemen surrendered as prisoners of war

▪️Russia’s Battlegroup North have defeated four Ukrainian brigades near the settlement of Gornal in the Kursk Region, the Defense Ministry reported

▪️Ukraine lost a tank, an armored combat vehicle, 10 automobiles, a self-propelled artillery unit, three artillery guns, a mortar, an OSA-AKM anti-aircraft missile system, a radar-electronic warfare station, as well as six UAV control posts, an ammunition depot and a technical equipment depot over the past day

▪️The Ukrainian army has lost up to 75,540 troops since its incursion in Russia’s borderline Kursk Region, the Defense Ministry said

▪️Over the period of fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy has lost 412 tanks, 336 infantry fighting vehicles, 311 armored personnel carriers, 2,283 armored combat vehicles, 2,759 motor vehicles, 636 artillery systems and 62 multiple rocket launchers