According to the official representative of the Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov, today the Russian air defense shot down two Ukrainian aircraft and intercepted Tochka-U missiles in the sky over the Luhansk People’s Republic.
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“Russian air defense systems shot down one Su-25 and one MiG-29 of the Ukrainian Air Force in the area of the settlement of Preobrazhennoye in the Lugansk People’s Republic, and also intercepted four Tochka-U ballistic missiles,” the major general said.
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In addition, the Russian military was able to eliminate 13 Ukrainian drones in the Kharkiv and Kherson regions, the DPR and LPR, destroyed the launcher of the Ukrainian S-300 air defense system and attacked five areas where troops and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were concentrated.
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Aviation over the past night hit an artillery battery in firing positions, two weapons depots and 18 areas of concentration of troops and equipment.
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“High-precision air-launched missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed a large ammunition depot of the Ukrainian group of troops located on the territory of the Energomashspetsstal plant in the city of Kramatorsk,” Konashenkov added.
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According to Konashenkov, since the beginning of the special military operation, Russian troops have destroyed: 151 aircraft, 112 helicopters, 742 unmanned aerial vehicles, 290 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,854 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 329 multiple rocket launchers, 1,338 field artillery pieces and mortars , as well as 2683 special military vehicles.
