MOSCOW, March 9. /TASS/. Three launchers of the US Patriot anti-aircraft missile system were apparently destroyed by a tactical missile strike near Pokrovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic, sources told TASS.

"The Iskander tactical missile system presumably wiped out three launchers of the US-made Patriot system near Pokrovsk," the sources stated.

The same strike also liquidated Western mercenaries who operated the missile systems.