MOSCOW, January 8. /TASS/. The Ukrainian military lost up to 230 troops dead and injured in the Krasny Liman direction over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

"The enemy lost up to 230 troops dead and injured, three armored combat vehicles, eight cars, as well as two Akatsiya self-propelled artillery systems," the report reads.

In the Krasny Liman direction, the units of the battlegroup Center with the support of aviation and artillery hit troops and equipment near the settlements of Torskoye, Yampolovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Chervonaya Dibrova of the Lugansk People’s Republic, the ministry added.