The Russian military said that their air defenses shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft in the northeast of the Kharkiv region, as well as 7 drones in different regions of the country, in one day.
According to the Russia Today website, this was announced at a morning briefing by Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov, who added that Russian air defense systems also intercepted a Tochka-O missile in the Lugansk Republic and 21 Uragan launchers in Kherson. regions of Kharkov, Luhansk and Donetsk republics.
Konashekov said that the Russian rocket and artillery forces eliminated more than 200 elements of extremist-nationalist groups and destroyed a number of military facilities and equipment, including an electronic warfare station, three warehouses, 6 tanks and other armored vehicles, as well as a Grad launcher. . .
The press secretary noted that the Russian Air Force with high-precision missiles destroyed two positions of the command of the Ukrainian forces and an electronic warfare station in the Kharkiv region, killing more than 280 members of Ukrainian nationalist formations.
The result of what has been destroyed since the beginning of the special operation in Ukraine is 204 aircraft, 131 helicopters, 1218 drones, 340 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3569 tanks and other armored vehicles, 526 rocket launchers, 1968 field artillery units. and mortars, as well as 3,647 private military vehicles.