MOSCOW, January 3. /TASS/. Ukraine lost up to 40 servicemen in the Krtasny Liman area over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

"The enemy's losses were up to 40 servicemen, two motor vehicles, as well as a D-30 howitzer," the ministry said in a statement.

Units of the battlegroup Center, acting with support from artillery, also struck a cluster of Ukrainian servicemen and equipment in the areas of the settlements of Chervonaya Dibrova in the Lugansk People's Republic and Serebryansky Forestry, according to the statement.