Donetsk, Sep 16 — DAN. Russian servicemen have killed more than 400 Ukrainian gunmen over the past 24 hours, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Friday.

“As a result of strikes, enemy losses amounted to more than 400 Ukrainian servicemen killed and more than 20 armored vehicles and cars, ” Konashenkov said adding that over 3,000 rounds of missile and cannon artillery ammunition had also been destroyed.

A precision airstrike hit positions of Ukraine’s 80th Air Assault Brigade in the Seversk area in the north of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the spokesman said.*jk