Russian air defense forces intercept 4 ATACMS missiles, 2 JDAM bombs, 8 HIMARS rockets

Military & Defense October 28, 2023, 15:52

Russian air defense also destroyed 36 Ukrainian drones in the past day

MOSCOW, October 28. /TASS/. Russian air defense forces intercepted four ATACMS missiles, two JDAM bombs, three HARM missiles, eight HIMARS rockets and destroyed 36 Ukrainian drones in the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

The drones were downed in the Kherson Region, the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Lugansk People’s Republic and the Zaporozhye Region, the ministry specified.

In all, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 517 Ukrainian warplanes, 253 helicopters, 8,348 unmanned aerial vehicles, 441 surface-to-air missile systems, 12,980 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,170 multiple rocket launchers, 6,897 field artillery guns and mortars and 14,720 special military motor vehicles since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s top brass reported.

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