MOSCOW, January 15. /TASS/. A US-made M777 artillery system was hit by Russian forces near the settlement of Shlyakhovoye in the Kherson region in the course of counterbattery work during the past day, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Sunday.

"A US-made M777 artillery system was destroyed near the settlement of Shlyakhovoye in the Kherson region," he said, adding that Russian forces also destroyed a D-20 howitzer near the settlement Krasny Liman in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and an Akatsiya 2S3 self-propelled howitzer near the settlement of Umanskoye, also in the DPR.

Apart from that, according to Konashenkov, Russian troops destroyed two Msta-B howitsers near the settlements of Georgiyevka and Skudnoye in the DPR, and two Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers near the settlements of Gulyaipole in the Zaporozhye region and Shevchenko in the DPR.

Russian troops also destroyed a D-30 howitzer near DPR’s Serebryanka and a US-made AN/TPQ-36 counterbattery radar station near DPR’s Konstantinovka.