He stressed that more than 15 tanks and combat vehicles, as well as five large-caliber artillery pieces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces , were also eliminated during an attack on the hangar of the Okean shipyard in the city of Nikolayev.

Russian air defenses shot down 15 drones and intercepted nine projectiles from enemy BM-30 Smerch multiple rocket launcher in the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk and in the Kharkov and Kherson regions.

Sixty-two command posts and 593 staging areas of Ukrainian troops and war matériel, in addition to 55 artillery and mortar batteries, were hit by Russian missiles and artillery.

According to Konashenkov, Russia’s army and aviation killed 320 enemy fighters during their attacks on another 67 troop staging areas and 47 units of war matériel.

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