“During one air battle in the area of \u200b\u200bthe settlements of Nikolaevka and Snegirevka in the Nikolaev region, the Russian Su-35 fighter shot down two Mi-24 helicopters and one Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force,” he said at a briefing.
Also, Russian air defense forces shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter in the Nikolaev region.
At the briefing, Konashenkov also said that the Russian Aerospace Forces attacked the temporary deployment of Ukrainian troops in Kharkov, as a result of which up to 100 Ukrainian nationalists were killed.