MOSCOW, January 13. /TASS/. Ukrainian losses near the Krasny Liman sector of the front line exceeded 280 troops in the past day, as Russian forces repelled two enemy attacks there, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

"In the Krasny Liman direction, units of [Russia’s] Battlegroup Center, supported by assault and army aviation as well as artillery firepower, repelled two attacks by assault teams of the 5th and 13th brigades of the National Guard of Ukraine near the settlement of Chervonaya Dibrova in the Lugansk People’s Republic and the Serebryanka forestry. More than 280 soldiers, three armored combat vehicles, nine cars and a D-30 howitzer were destroyed as a result," the ministry said.