The Ukrainian army lost almost 9,500 troops and foreign mercenaries killed or wounded in the special military operation zone in the past week, Russian military expert Andrey Marochko said.

Russian forces destroyed 5,600 unmanned aerial vehicles, 12 unmanned boats, 19 seagoing vessels, 71 armored combat vehicles, 31 field artillery pieces, 25 electronic warfare systems and counter-battery radars, as well as nearly 600 combat vehicles of various types over the past week, Marochko added.