09.05.2022 (12:45)
Briefing by the Russian Defence Ministry
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
High-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces have destroyed two command posts and a Ukrainian battery of Grad multiple rocket launchers near Popasnaya, 18 manpower and military equipment concentration areas near Lisichansk, a counterbattery radio detection station manufactured in the USA near Zolotoye.
Oniks high-precision missiles launched by Bastion coastal missile system near Artsiz, Odessa region, have destroyed Ukrainian helicopters at a bounce platform.
Operational-tactical and army aviation have neutralised 52 manpower and military equipment concentration areas, as well as an ammunition depot near Glukhov.
Missile troops and artillery units have neutralised eight command posts, 26 artillery units at their firing positions, as well as 211 manpower and military equipment concentration areas.
The attacks have resulted in the elimination of up to 350 nationalists and the neutralisation of 56 units of military equipment.
In addition, four Ukrainian Smerch multiple rocket launchers and one launching ramp of S-300 air defence system near Bogodukhov.
Russian air defence means have shot down three aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force: two MiG-29 near Iverskoye and Novodonetskoye, Donetsk People's Republic, and one Su-25 near Pogonovka, Kharkov region overnight.
Three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, including two Bayraktar-TB2, have been hit over Snake Island.
In addition, 12 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been shot down over Balakleya, Shiykovka, Goptovka, Tsupovka, Maliye and Bolshiye Prokhody (Kharkov region), Kamenka (Cherkassy region), Brianka and Adveyevka (Donetsk People's Republic), Pavlovka (Lugansk People's Republic).
Three projectiles of Smerch multiple rocket launcher have been intercepted near Izyum and Snezhkovka.
In total, 160 aircraft and 118 helicopters, 782 unmanned aerial vehicles, 299 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,949 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 342 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,423 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,769 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
