MOSCOW, January 1. /TASS/. Russian air defenses downed a Ukrainian Su-27 aircraft in the past day, intercepting 16 HIMARS and six Uragan rockets and destroying 46 enemy drones, the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

"Air defenses downed an Su-27 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force near the Velikoalexandrovka settlement in the Dnepropetrovsk Region. Over the past day, 16 HIMARS rockets and six Uragan rockets were intercepted," the statement reads.

As many as 46 Ukrainian drones were destroyed near Grakovo in the Kharkov Region, Zaliman and Novosyolovskoye in the Lugansk People’s Republic, Volnovakha and Novomikhailovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, and Staraya Zbruyevka and Vasilyevka in the Kherson Region.

According to the Defense Ministry, a total of 565 planes, 263 helicopters, 10,318 drones, 445 missile systems, 14,423 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,194 multiple rocket launchers, 7,589 field artillery systems and mortars, as well as 16,925 special military motor vehicles, have been destroyed since the start of Russia’s special military operation.