MOSCOW, July 29. /TASS/. Russian air defenses intercepted two S-200 air defense missiles upgraded to hit ground targets in the past day, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov said.
"Air defenses intercepted two S-200 air defense missiles upgraded to hit ground targets, seven Storm Shadow cruise missiles and two HIMARS rockets in the past 24 hours," he specified.
According to Konashenkov, six Ukrainian drones were downed near Verkhnekamenka in the Lugansk People’s Republic, Spornoye, Pervomaiskoye and Maryinka in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Marfopol in the Zaporozhye Region.
A total of 457 aircraft, 244 helicopters, 5,314 unmanned aerial vehicles, 427 artillery systems, 11,021 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,140 multiple rocket launchers, 5,652 field artillery systems and mortras, as well as 11,951 special military motor vehicles, have been destroyed since the start of Russia’s special military operation, Konashenkov pointed out.