The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Saturday the destruction of 389 Ukrainian targets, including 15 rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition depots last night.
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Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that recent attacks by the Russian armed forces destroyed at least 35 command posts, 41 strongholds and 169 concentration areas of soldiers and mercenaries on Ukrainian territory.
Konashenkov noted that in the latest military aviation operation, 120 Ukrainian nationalists, four tanks and six armored vehicles were neutralized.
The missile forces in turn attacked four Ukrainian military installations: two command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a battery of multiple rocket launch systems and a radar station.
During yesterday from the air, the operational-tactical and military aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces also hit nine military concentration areas and killed more than 120 “nationalists”, four tanks and six armored vehicles.
The senior Russian military officer commented that the anti-aircraft defense shot down 18 unmanned devices, including three Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drones.
Offering the balance of the military operation in Ukraine, Igor Konashénkov reported that two projectiles were intercepted over the towns of Gorlovka, in the Self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk, and Snezhkovka in the Kharkov region.
Since the beginning of the Russian military operation for the protection of the Donbas region, Russian forces have destroyed 142 aircraft, 112 helicopters, 658 drones, 279 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,656 tanks and other armored vehicles, 307 multiple rocket launchers, 1,189 units of field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,492 special military vehicles.