“In a day, air defense systems shot down 15 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Shipilovka, Liman, Kremennaya, Ploshchanka, Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People’s Republic, Petrivske, Novognativka, Nikolaevka of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Skelki, Ocheretovatoye of the Zaporozhye region, Rubanovka and Lopatki of the Kherson region ", the statement said.

Also, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Russian aviation with high-precision weapons destroyed 70 foreign mercenaries in the DPR and the Kharkiv region.