The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that Russian troops destroyed a number of Ukrainian Armed Forces aircraft within a week. “Within a week, the missile forces, artillery and unmanned aerial vehicles of military groups destroyed three Su-25 attack aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force at their home airfield and five launchers of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system,” the department’s report says.

Earlier it was reported that the Russian Armed Forces hit the location of foreign mercenaries near Kharkov.