According to the spokesman, Major General Igor Konashenkov, the the Russian aviation also destroyed two command posts, an Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile system, an ammunition depot and 23 staging areas of Ukrainian troops and war matériel.

For its part, the anti-aircraft defense shot down a Su-25 strike aircraft over the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), intercepted an enemy Tochka-U missile, as well as two Smerch launcher rockets, in both cases over the Kherson region.

Russian artillery decommissioned two BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers and a fuel depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolayev region.

56 Ukrainian command posts, 127 artillery firing positions, as well as 273 staging areas of live forces and war matériel were also attacked by the aviation.

Konashenkov noted that over 300 Ukrainian fighters, seven armored vehicles, 12 guns and mortars, and 24 special vehicles were eliminated by artillery fire.

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