“In the area of the settlement of Novy Donbass of the Donetsk People’s Republic, as a result of a rocket artillery strike on a field airfield of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters located there were destroyed and two more helicopters were significantly damaged,” the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Also, Russian troops with high-precision air-launched missiles in the village of Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic hit the point of temporary deployment of mercenaries from the "foreign legion".
On July 17, Russian troops destroyed a warehouse for storing Harpoon anti-ship missiles in Odessa.