🇬🇧🇺🇦 Briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense (01.05.2022)
▫️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue a special military operation in Ukraine.
💥 Onyx high-precision missiles near Odessa at a military airfield destroyed a hangar with weapons and ammunition received from the United States and European countries, and also destroyed the runway.
💥 High-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit seven military facilities in Ukraine. Among them: four areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, as well as three depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition in the areas of the settlements of Berezovoe of the Donetsk People's Republic, Slatino and Barvenkovo, Kharkiv region.
💥 Operational-tactical and army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed two Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems in the areas of the settlements of Zaporozhye and Artemovsk. Two depots of ammunition and fuel were hit in the areas of the settlements of Privolnoe and Shevchenko in the Zaporozhye region, as well as fifteen strongholds and areas of concentration of manpower and equipment. As a result of the strikes, up to 140 personnel and 19 armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
💥 During the day, missile forces and artillery hit 786 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 24 command posts and three depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition in the Grushevakha area. Up to 200 personnel, a battery of multiple rocket launchers and up to 20 units of military equipment were destroyed.
💥 Russian air defense systems shot down two Su-24M bombers of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Petrivske area of the Kharkiv region. Also during the night, 12 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Mezhevaya, Novobogdanivka, Mirograd, Shirokaya Balka, Priyutnoye, Torskoye, Staromikhaylovskaya, Balakleya and Khartsizsk. Two Ukrainian Tochka-U ballistic missiles were shot down over the settlement of Tokmak, Zaporozhye region. Also, two Ukrainian rockets of the Smerch multiple launch rocket system were destroyed over the settlement of Semyonovka, Kharkiv region.
📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 145 aircraft, 112 helicopters, 672 unmanned aerial vehicles, 281 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2703 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 312 multiple rocket launchers, 1203 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 2514 units of special military vehicles.
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