This was reported by the press service of the regional government.

“The first 45 fighters arrived from the Rostov hospital on the Samara land,” TASS reports.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that as a result of a strike by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the HIMARS MLRS on the settlement of Makeyevka, Russian servicemen were killed.

The number of dead Russian military as a result of a strike by Ukraine on the settlement of Makeevka amounted to 89 people.

The blow was struck at the point of temporary deployment of one of the Russian units.

On January 3, events were held in Samara and Togliatti in memory of the soldiers who died in Makeevka.