MOSCOW, July 30. /TASS/. Russian armed forces destroyed two US M777 howitzers near Stepnogorsk, Zaporozhye region, official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said on Saturday.

"Two American M777 howitzers were destroyed in the area of Stepnogorsk, Zaporozhye region. A battery of Uragan multiple launch rocket systems around the settlement of Kurdyumovka and two artillery batteries of Giatsint-B howitzers were hit," he said.

According to Konashenkov, the Russian Armed Forces also suppressed six platoons of multiple launch rocket systems Grad, two batteries of self-propelled artillery systems Gvozdika, and seven artillery platoons of D-20 and D-30 guns.