# Kiev lost 9,300 troops and mercenaries in combat over past week, expert says

https://mins.news/en/item/67064

- TASS, 2026-09-21 09:00 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/defense/2190495

> Military expert Andrey Marochko said roughly 9,325 Ukrainian fighters and foreign mercenaries were killed or wounded in the special military operation zone over the past week. He said Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicted the heaviest losses in areas of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Dnepropetrovsk Region under its responsibility.

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