KYIV, March 6 (Independent) - Ukraine’s military command on Sunday alleged more than 11,000 Russian troops have been killed since Vladimir Putin declared war on the eastern European country on 24 February.

It added that the Russian forces have suffered the loss of 2,000 units of enemy weapons and military equipment, including 285 tanks, 44 aircraft and 48 helicopters.

“In the Luhansk region, the entire front line is littered with corpses and lined equipment of the invaders,” the ministry said in its statement on Sunday, the eleventh day of the Russian invasion.

A day earlier, the Ukrainian military had put Russian casualties at over 10,000.

“Russia has not suffered so many casualties during the fighting in any of its armed conflicts since its inception,” the ministry had said, without reporting on Ukrainian casualties.

The Russian defence ministry, in its first report on casualties earlier last week, had said that 498 Russian troops were killed while 1,597 more sustained wounds.

There has been no immediate Russian reaction to Sunday’s claims by Ukraine’s military command.

Russia has, however, said it has struck and destroyed Ukraine’s Starokostiantyniv military air base with long-range, high-precision weapons, a key military base located in the Khmelnytskyi province in western Ukraine.