MOSCOW, November 13. /TASS/. Russian air defense forces downed six Ukrainian drones and intercepted thirteen HIMARS and Olkha shells in the course of the special military operation during the past day, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Sunday.

"During the day, air defense systems destroyed six unmanned aerial vehicles near the settlements of Kamenka in the Kharkov region, Novokrasnyanka, Nizhnaya Duvanla, and Kuzemovka in the Lugansk People’s Republic, Blagoveshchenka and Pavlovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic. Apart from that, 13 shells fired from multiple rocket launches were intercepted, including ten HIMARS rockets near the settlements of Chaplinka in the Kherson region, Zhitlovka in the Lugansk People’s Republic, and three Olkha shells near the settlements of Stakhanov in the Lugansk People’s Republic and Chaplinka in theKherson region," he said.

According to the Russian defense ministry, as many as 333 Ukrainian warplanes, 176 helicopters, 2,498 drones, 388 air defense systems, 6,569 tanks and other armored vehicles, 887 multiple rocket launch systems, 3,577 artillery systems and mortars, as well as 7,202 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.