This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

"In the Donetsk direction, during the active actions of the units of the Southern Group of Forces, air strikes and artillery fire, the enemy's losses per day amounted to more than 400 Ukrainian servicemen and mercenaries," the department said in a summary.

Four armored fighting vehicles, ten cars, four pickups, a Grad MLRS combat vehicle and one D-20 howitzer were also destroyed.

Earlier, the mayor of Donetsk, Alexei Kulemzin, said that a fire was observed near the Druzhba Sports Palace.

He said that as a result of the strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Kalininsky district of Donetsk, according to preliminary data, there are victims.

According to the JCCC, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired four missiles from MLRS at the Kalininsky district of Donetsk.