On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the destruction of two American HIMARS rocket launchers and the elimination of dozens of Ukrainian soldiers and foreign mercenaries in Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine.
The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, said at a press briefing that two US HIMARS launchers were destroyed as a result of a high-precision weapon strike on the territory of a plant in Kharkov, and 53 Ukrainian nationalists and foreign mercenaries were killed there.
Konashenkov said that the Russian Air Force attacked the place of temporary deployment of the 92nd mechanized brigade in the Kharkov region, eliminating up to 200 ultra-nationalists and destroying seven armored vehicles.
Russian forces destroyed a launcher for U.S. Harpoon anti-ship missiles near Odessa, as well as a Ukrainian army artillery battery in Donetsk.
Over the past day, Russian air defense shot down 10 Ukrainian drones in certain areas.
Konashenkov noted that due to the heavy losses suffered by the Ukrainian 93rd mechanized brigade in the Kharkiv direction and the 128th mountain assault brigade in the Zaporozhye direction, cases of mass flight of members of two units from combat positions and their flight to the central and western regions of Ukraine .
In total, 261 Ukrainian aircraft, 145 helicopters, 1,659 drones, 361 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,215 tanks and other armored vehicles, 778 rocket launchers, 3,234 units of field artillery and mortars, 4,621 combat vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the war. special military operation.
Source: Russian Ministry of Defense.