MOSCOW, October 25. /TASS-DEFENSE/. Russian troops shot down a Mikoyan MiG-29 plane, seven HIMARS and Smerch rockets and three US-made HARM anti-radar missiles, hit a heliport, two armament and ammunition depots, eliminated 13 unmanned aerial vehicles during the special military operation in Ukraine, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov said.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy’s battalion tactical group attacked the Russian troops’ positions on a narrow front near the settlement of Kuzemovka in the Lugansk People’s Republic. The units of the Ukrainian army were neutralized by Russian artillery fire and pushed back to their initial positions. More than 30 Ukrainian servicemen, a tank, three armored fighting vehicles and two pickup trucks were eliminated.
In the Krasny Liman direction, in the past 24 hours, Russian forces eliminated over 120 Ukrainian troops, three tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles, an armored personnel carrier, three pickups and one automotive vehicle.
In the Nikolayev-Krivoi Rog direction, the enemy’s two company task forces unsuccessfully attacked the positions of our troops near the settlements of Ishchenka and Bruskinskoye in the Kherson Region. All the attacks were repelled. In the past 24 hours, Russian troops eliminated up to 130 Ukrainian servicemen, three tanks, nine armored fighting vehicles and 11 automotive vehicles.
Operational-tactical and army aviation aircraft, missile and artillery units hit four command posts of the Ukrainian army near the settlements of Novoye and Dvurechnaya in the Kharkov Region, Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Olenovka in the Nikolayev Region. They also hit a heliport near Aleksandrovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, 68 artillery units at firing positions, manpower and military hardware in 182 areas.
Two armament and ammunition depots of the Ukrainian army were destroyed near Ugledar in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Zelyony Gai in the Nikolayev Region.
Operational-tactical aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Force shot down a MiG-29 plane of the Ukrainian Air Force near the settlement of Kaluga in the Nikolayev Region.
Russian air defense systems eliminated 13 unmanned aerial vehicles near the settlements of Oborotnovka, Kalinovka, Vladimirovka in the Lugansk People’s Republic, Kolodeznoye in the Kharkov Region, Sadok, Aleksandrovka, Krinichanka, Kucherskoye in the Kherson Region and Energodar in the Zaporozhye Region.
Also, they downed seven rockets of HIMARS and Smerch multiple launch rocket systems near the settlements of Klapaya, Otradokamenka, Vesyoloye in the Kherson Region, Kolomyichikha in the Lugansk People’s Republic, and also three US-made HARM anti-radar missiles near Petrovka in the Lugansk People’s Republic and Antonovka in the Kherson Region.
Since the beginning of the special military operation, the Russian troops have eliminated 326 Ukrainian warplanes, 162 helicopters, 2,339 unmanned aerial vehicles, 383 air defense missile systems, 6,046 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 874 multiple rocket launchers, 3,525 field artillery systems and mortars, and 6,758 special military motor vehicles.