MOSCOW, October 29. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces lost up to 110 servicemen in the Donetsk area over the past 24 hours, as well as two drone command posts, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.

"The total losses of the Ukrainian military in this [Donetsk] area amounted to up to 110 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks. The following equipment was hit: a US-made M777 artillery system and a D-30 howitzer. [The Russian forces] also destroyed two Ukrainian drone command posts," the ministry said in a statement.

It also added that Russia’s battlegroup South hit the manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian 28th mechanized and 3rd assault brigade in Andreyevka, Yakovlevka, Artemovskoye, Kleshcheyevka and Kurdyumovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic.