“In total, more than 620 nationalists, 24 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, as well as 27 special vehicles were destroyed as a result of air, missile and artillery strikes in a day,” ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a statement.

  • Konashenkov announced the destruction of about 620 Ukrainian nationalists per day

According to the defense department, on June 21, the Russian Aerospace Forces launched an airstrike on the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as on the shops of the Nikolaev shipbuilding plant.

Up to 500 soldiers from the 59th mechanized brigade were destroyed, they said.

Also, Russian missile forces and artillery destroyed an American-made AN-TPQ artillery reconnaissance station in the Nikolsky region in the DPR.