MOSCOW, November 6. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces lost up to 115 troops in the south Donetsk area in the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

"The enemy lost up to 115 troops and two motor vehicles in the south Donetsk area," the statement reads.

Service members of the 79th Air Assault Brigade and the 128th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces were hit near Novomikhailovka and Straomayorskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic.