MOSCOW, January 2. /TASS/. Ukraine lost up to 140 troops, two US-made М109 Paladin artillery systems and a Polish-made Krab system in the south Donetsk area in the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
"In the south Donetsk area, units of Battlegroup East, backed by aircraft crews and artillery forces, hit troops and equipment of the 79th Air Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces and the 128th Territorial Defense Brigade near Novomikhailovka and Staromayorskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The enemy lost up to 140 troops and three motor vehicles in the past 24 hours," the statement reads.
Two US-made M777 artillery systems, two US-made M109 Paladin artillery systems, a Polish-made Krab artillery system, an Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system and a D-20 system were destroyed by counter-battery fire.