More than 300 high-ranking officers of Russian army killed – Arestovych

More than 300 high-ranking officers of the Russian army have been already killed in the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.

Oleksiy Arestovych, a freelance adviser to the head of the Ukrainian President's Office, announced this on the Current Time TV channel, an Ukrinform correspondent reported.

"According to information available to me, more than 300 high-ranking officers of the Russian army (majors, lieutenant colonels) were killed as of today’s morning. This was due to our artillery and aircraft that had repeatedly hit the headquarters of units and subdivisions advancing here," he said.

According to Arestovych, Russian troops are advancing in the area of Irpin along the Zhytomyr highway towards Kyiv. He said that he had received a photo showing more than a hundred burned vehicles of the Russian army targeted by the Ukrainian artillery.

As reported, the total estimated losses of the enemy between February 24 and February 28 as of 06:00 are: aircraft - 29, helicopters - 29, tanks - 191, armored combat vehicles - 816, guns - 74, Buk air defense systems - 1, Grad multiple launch rocket systems - 21, vehicles - 291, tanks - 60, UAVs - 3, ships/boats - 2, air defense means - 5, personnel - about 5,300 (to be specified).

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