 On the Tavria axis in the south of Ukraine, Russian troops lost almost five companies killed and wounded in action over the past day. That's according to the commander of the Tavria operational strategic grouping of troops, General Oleksandr Tarnovsky. The defenders of the Tavria zone confidently hold their defenses, continuing to destroy the enemy, he said. According to Tarnovsky, over the past day, the enemy attacked Ukrainian positions 22 times. He noted that Ukraine's rocket and artillery units in the area completed 1,520 fire missions. It was counter-battery fire and efforts to engage targets located earlier. The enemy's losses in terms of soldiers killed and wounded in action amounted to almost five companies, Tarnovsky emphasized. He noted that 68 units of Russian military hardware were either destroyed or damaged, including five tanks, 13 IFV units, for armored combat vehicles and APC-2MTLBs, a 2C-19s-S Howitzer, for Akatsiya self-propelled Howitzers, an Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicle, a Super-CAM drone, for Hyacinth B guns, and a Zitali warfare system. Three ammo depots were also destroyed.