Russian MoD: Ukrainian military equipment destroyed, a fighter jet and 3 drones downed

Moscow, SANA- Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Major General Igor Konashenkov, announced that Russian Air Force, with high-precision weapons, eliminated about 150 Ukrainian soldiers in Kharkov city and destroyed 12 units of military equipment of the Ukrainian forces.

Konashenkov said in a press briefing on Tuesday that two command posts in the towns of Zvanovka and Ivano-Daryevka in the Donetsk People’s Republic and four depots of ammunition, rocket and artillery weapons in the Krasnoy region in the Kharkov region were also destroyed during the past 24 hours, in addition to destroying military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 18 areas.

Konashenkov added that a Russian fighter shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft in Novobratsko town in the Kherson region, asserting that the Russian air defense systems shot down 3 Ukrainian drones in the Chornobaivka regions of the outskirts of Kherson and Konya in the Kharkov region and Alexandroupoli in the Lugansk People’s Republic.

He astressed that 3 Tochka or tactical missiles and 8 rocket-propelled grenades were intercepted in the towns of Lyskova and dol KenKoy in the Kharkov region.

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