"According to updated information, as a result of a high-precision strike at the point of temporary deployment of the 56th separate motorized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces in the city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk People's Republic on June 27 of this year, two generals, up to 50 officers of the armed forces of Ukraine, as well as up to 20 foreign mercenaries and military advisers participating in a staff meeting were destroyed," the ministry said in a statement.
The Defense Ministry added that about 40 Ukrainian soldiers were eliminated and an ammunition depot on the Kherson axis was destroyed.
According to the ministry, the Ukrainian forces continue to attempt attacks in the Donetsk, South Donetsk and Krasnyi Lyman directions.
"During the hostilities in this [Donetsk] direction, the losses of the armed forces of Ukraine amounted to 530 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, five vehicles, as well as Msta-B and D-20 howitzers," the ministry said in a statement, adding that Russian soldiers have repelled four Ukrainian attacks in this direction.
The ministry also said that the enemy lost up to 135 soldiers in South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, adding that one more attack was repelled near the Staromaiorske settlement of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed an ammunition depot of the Ukrainian army's mountain assault brigade in the DPR, the ministry said, adding that Russian air defenses had shot down one HARM missile, two HIMARS missiles and 11 drones over the past 24 hours.