The Russian army repels a Ukrainian attack, downs one fighter and 25 drones

Moscow,SANA-The Russian Defense Ministry announced that its forces repelled a Ukrainian attack on the direction of Solidar, eliminating more than 1,185 soldiers and mercenaries, shooting down a fighter and 25 drones, and destroying US-made weapons stores.

Russian forces thwarted in the Kobyansk axis the actions of Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the Kharkov region, eliminated 60 Ukrainian soldiers and destroyed two combat vehicles and US-made artillery, the ministry said in its daily statement on the conduct of the special military operation.

The ministry indicated that the Russian air defense systems downed a Ukrainian Su-27 fighter near the village of Chasov Yar in the Donetsk People’s Republic, and three missiles from the Himars and Yurgen multiple launch missile systems, in addition to destroying 25 Ukrainian drones in the Luhansk and Donetsk republics and the regions of Zaporozhye and Kherson.

The ministry added that the Russian forces eliminated 110 Ukrainian soldiers on the southern Donetsk and Zaporozhye axes, destroyed self-propelled artillery, and eliminated 40 Ukrainian soldiers in the Kherson axis, and destroyed an American-made M777 artillery system and a self-propelled artillery base.

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