“Russian air defense systems shot down a Mi-24 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Cherkasskaya Lozovaya area of the Kharkiv region,” the ministry said in a statement.
In addition, two Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed in the vicinity of the settlements of Pesky-Radkovsky and Borshchevka.
Russian aviation also destroyed the Ukrainian S-300 anti-missile defense system in the area of the settlement of Nikolaevka and more than 210 nationalists.