According to the military spokesman, during the day on Wednesday the air defense also intercepted 16 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles and four Himars projectiles.
Major General Konashenkov asserted that the shootings occurred in the Kharkov, Sumy and Kherson regions, in the Lugansk People’s Republic and in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
Since the start of the special military operation, Russian troops have destroyed 416 aircraft, 230 helicopters, 3,935 UAVs, 421 anti-aircraft missile systems, 8,948 tanks and other armored vehicles, 1,095 multiple launch rocket systems and four thousand 717 guns.
At the end of February, the Bloomberg agency reported that the United States would supply Ukraine with modified JDAM-ER (Joint Direct Attack Munition Extended Range) devices based on a global positioning system that would make it possible to convert aviation munitions into guided bombs.
According to this medium, the GPS-guided device is attached to an aerial bomb that weighs from 226 to 907 kg and with the help of ailerons allows it to glide at a distance of up to 72 kilometers.
Russia’s military operation in Ukraine was announced on February 24 by President Vladimir Putin in response to a request from the self-proclaimed republics of Lugansk and Donetsk to protect the population of those regions in Donbass, southeastern Ukraine.
During the military operation, Russian forces took control of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions which became part of the territory of the Russian Federation, along with the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk republics.
The West at the time ignored Moscow’s proposals to form a common security space in Europe and prevent the advance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to the borders with the Eurasian giant, which saw in it a direct threat to its national security.
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