MOSCOW, January 8. /TASS/. The Ukrainian army’s losses in the Zaporozhye direction reached up to 40 troops over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

"In the Zaporozhye direction the units of the Russian military group supported by aviation and artillery attacks hit the 118th mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces and the 3rd brigade of Ukraine’s National Guard near the settlements of Rabotino and Novoprokopovka of the Zaporozhye Region. The losses of the Ukrainian military reached up to 40 troops, a tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, three cars and a D-20," the report reads.