“High-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces have hit 2 command posts, 11 company strongpoints, and 4 ammunition depots of AFU near Zaporozhye, Paraskovievka, Kostantinovka, and Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk People's Republic,” the ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a daily press briefing in Moscow.

Konashenkov confirmed that operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 32 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration.

“Missile troops and artillery have hit 6 command posts, 123 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration, and 13 AFU artillery batteries at firing positions,” Konashenkov said, adding that the attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 150 “nationalists” and up to 26 armored and motor vehicles.

“2 S-300 anti-aircraft missile launchers and 1 radar post near Shpilevka, Sumy Region, have been destroyed,” Konashenkov noted.

Konashenkov also claimed that Russian air defense systems overnight shot down 15 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Novotroitskoe, Vladimirovka, Petrovskoe, Luganskoe of the Donetsk People's Republic, Yepifanovka, Kudryashovka, Verkhnyaya Duvanka of the Lugansk People's Republic, Chkalovskoe, Velykie Prokhody, Vyshee Solenoe in Kharkov Region and over Snake Island.

“In total, 165 Ukrainian aircraft and 125 helicopters, 879 unmanned aerial vehicles, 306 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,098 tanks, and other armored combat vehicles, 381 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,525 field artillery, and mortars, as well as 2,934 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation,” he added. (ILKHA)