MOSCOW, December 23. /TASS/. Russian forces repelled 11 Ukrainian attacks in the Donetsk area in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

"In the Donetsk area, units of Battlegroup South, acting in coordination with aircraft and artillery crews, repelled 11 attacks and hit the Ukrainian armed forces’ troops and equipment near Krasnoye, Dyleyevka, Kirovo and Georgiyevka in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the statement reads.