Photo from Ukrainian Defense Ministry press service
About 300 Russian-backed militants have been killed in the last week, advisor to the Interior Ministry Anton Herashchenko said on Ukrainian television channel ICTV’s Svoboda Slova (Freedom of Speech) program on Monday night, according to Ukrainian online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda.
"According to our data, about 300 terrorists were killed over the last week as a result of powerful artillery counterattacks near the Donetsk airport, Horlivka, Komsomolsk and Volnovakha," he said.
"Ukrainian forces have hit a large number of Russian troops and their command centers with artillery strikes," Herashchenko said.