The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft in the Krivoy Rog region and made 13 marches in separate areas, and also destroyed two US-made M777 howitzers, specifying that “a battery of rocket launchers was destroyed.” “Hurricane” and two batteries of howitzers “Hyacinth-B” in the territory of the Donetsk Republic.

The statement said: “Russian forces destroyed six platoons of Grad rocket launchers and two batteries of Gvozdika self-propelled artillery launchers. The Air Force also hit an American AN/TPQ-36 radar in Donetsk and another American AN/TPQ. Radar-37 in Donetsk.” Kherson region.

The department indicated that “Russian forces fired at a number of points of deployment of Ukrainian military formations, including the point of temporary deployment of the extremist nationalist organization Kraken, using Iskander rockets in the Kharkiv region, resulting in the death of more than 30 of its members. .

In total, 261 Ukrainian aircraft, 145 helicopters, 1,644 drones, 361 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,190 tanks and other armored vehicles, 772 rocket launchers, 3,217 units of field artillery and mortars, 4,573 special combat vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the year. special military operation.