MOSCOW, February 12. /TASS/. Ukrainian self-propelled howitzers and one US-made AN/TPQ-50 counterbattery radar station were destroyed by Russian forces in the Kherson direction during the past day, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Sunday.

"In the past day, in the course of the counterbattery fighting in the Kherson direction a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer and an Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer, and a US-made AN/TPQ-50 counterbattery radar station were destroyed near the settlement of Kuibyshevo in the Kherson region," he said.