“As a result of air strikes, more than 170 nationalists, nine tanks, two Grad MLRS installations, a field artillery battery and eight vehicles for various purposes were destroyed,” the ministry said in a statement.

In addition, Russian pilots hit 65 areas of concentration of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Earlier it was reported that the servicemen of the Russian Guard destroyed six nationalists from the Kraken formation in the Kharkiv region, another was captured.

The Russian Ministry of Defense also published footage of the destruction of the command post of a motorized infantry unit of the Ukrainian armed forces.