MOSCOW, January 21. /TASS/. The Ukrainian army’s losses in the South Donetsk area in the past 24 hours reached up to 70 troops and two cars, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported.

"In the South Donetsk area, the units of the East battlegroup supported by aviation and artillery repelled an attack by the 72nd assault group of the mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian army near the settlement of Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic. Near the settlement of Paraskoviyevka of the Donetsk People’s Republic the troops of the 79th air assault brigade of the Ukrainian army was attacked," the report reads.

The enemy’s losses reached up to 70 troops, two cars, as well as a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, the ministry added.