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113 Ukrainian military targets hit by Russian missile forces and artillery in past day

Forty-four Ukrainian military targets were hit by Russian air force

MOSCOW, April 17. /TASS/. Russian missile forces and artillery hit 113 Ukrainian military targets during the day, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Sunday.

"Missile forces and artillery hit 113 military targets in Ukraine, including four army control centers, four artillery batteries, two fuels depots, and 103 strongholds and areas of the deployment of the enemy manpower," he said.

Konashenkov added that Russia’s armed forces have destroyed 471 drones, 254 multiple missile launcher systems and 2,308 tanks and other armored combat vehicles since the beginning of the special military operation. "In all, since the beginning of the special military operation, 136 warplanes, 471 unmanned aerial vehicles, 249 air defense systems, 2,308 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 254 multiple missile launcher systems, 998 artillery systems and mortars, and 2,171 special military cars have been destroyed," he said.

Konashenkov said that forty-four Ukrainian military targets were hit by Russian air force. "Russia’s tactical air force hit 44 Ukrainian military targets, including two command centers and an S-300 system’s radar, near the settlement of Avdeyevka," he said.

Apart from that, in his words, three missile depots were destroyed near the settlements of Zavgorodneye and Protopopova, as wells as 23 areas of the deployment of Ukrainian weapons in the settlements of Krasny Liman, Novoselovka, Rubezhnoye, Ugledar, Popasnaya, Prishib, and Gusarovka.