“As a result of a group strike with high-precision weapons, the launcher, tractor, ammunition and transport-loading vehicle of the US-made Patriot anti-aircraft missile system were hit,” the department said in a statement.

Military personnel of the "South" group, while working in the Donetsk direction, liberated the village of Pobeda, improved the situation along the front line and defeated several formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the enemy lost 410 troops, a tank and three armored combat vehicles in this direction.