“During the day, operational-tactical aviation hit 17 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Among them: 2 command posts and communication hubs, 2 ammunition depots and 1 fuel depot, as well as 11 strong points and areas of Ukrainian military equipment concentration,” the ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a daily press briefing in Moscow.

Konashenkov claimed that Russian Air Defence means had shot down 2 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the air near Severodonetsk.

“In total, 125 Ukrainian aircraft and 91 helicopters, 394 unmanned aerial vehicles, 226 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,948 tanks, and other armored combat vehicles, 212 multiple launch rocket systems, 838 field artillery, and mortars, as well as 1,842 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation,” he added. (ILKHA)