MOSCOW, January 21. /TASS/. Russian troops struck a warehouse of loitering munitions and deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.

"Operational/tactical aircraft, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian groups of forces struck a warehouse of loitering munitions, sites for the pre-launch preparation and launch of long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, energy infrastructure facilities used to support the Ukrainian army’s operations, and also temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 144 locations," the ministry said in a statement.

The Ukrainian army lost roughly 1,260 troops in battles with Russian forces in all the frontline areas over the past 24 hours, according to the latest data on the special military operation in Ukraine released by Russia’s Defense Ministry.

The latest figures show that the Ukrainian army lost roughly 160 troops, a tank and an armored combat vehicle in the responsibility area of Russia’s Battlegroup North, about 200 troops and two armored combat vehicles in the responsibility area of the Battlegroup West and over 185 troops, two armored personnel carriers and nine armored combat vehicles in the responsibility area of the Battlegroup South.