The Russian Defense Ministry said that Russian warplanes destroyed Ukrainian military installations with precision-guided missiles and killed about 200 Ukrainian military personnel, stating that “Russian armed forces destroyed the 72nd Brigade deployment point in Artyomovsk, Donetsk, resulting in the elimination of up to 130 Ukrainian military personnel.

“Russian forces fired high-precision missiles at about 70 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the 95th brigade of the Ukrainian offensive in Dzerzhinsky, Donetsk and destroyed two batteries of howitzers,” the report says. In Kharkiv, Russian air defense systems shot down eight Ukrainian drones and intercepted a MLRS missile in Donetsk and southern Ukraine.

The Ministry of Defense explained: “They destroyed four platoons of the Grad MLRS, two platoons of Msta-B guns in Donetsk, attacked 3 command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and also destroyed 5 warehouses and a launcher of anti-aircraft missile systems Buk- M1″. system.”