MOSCOW, October 28. /TASS/. The Ukrainians lost roughly 120 troops in the south Donetsk area in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a report.

"In the south Donetsk direction, units of [Russia’s] Battlegroup East, in cooperation with army aircraft and artillery, struck concentrations of manpower of Ukraine’s 72nd mechanized and 118th territorial defense brigades near the settlements of Vodyanoye and Staromayorskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). The enemy lost roughly 120 troops and three cars," the ministry said.