MOSCOW, December 21. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces lost up to 180 people in the Krasny Liman direction under fire from Russia’s Battlegroup Center, head of the group’s press center, Alexander Savchuk, told TASS.

"Units of the battlegroup Center continue to carry out combat missions during a special military operation in the Krasny Liman direction. In the area of the Torsky sector and Serebryansky forestry, coordinated actions of units of a motorized rifle regiment with the support of artillery crews defeated the assault groups of the 63rd mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces. Enemy losses amounted to up to 180 military personnel," he said.

According to Savchuk, during the counter-battery fight, about 20 artillery crews of Ukrainian troops were exposed and suppressed.