Russian military air defense during a special operation shot down more than 160 aircraft and helicopters

“As of December 25, 2022, the share of enemy air targets destroyed by Russian military air defense systems is more than 60% of the total number of their losses,” he said in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.

Leonov specified that more than 160 planes and helicopters, 3 thousand UAVs, over 1,700 different types of missiles and rockets were shot down.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that Russian Aerospace Forces fighters shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft and a Mi-8 military helicopter in the Donetsk People's Republic.