MOSCOW, September 5. /TASS/. Twenty-one HIMARS and Uragan rockets fired by Ukrainian troops were intercepted by Russian air defense systems and 33 Ukrainian drones were shot down by Russian electronic warfare means during the past day, the Russian defense ministry said on Tuesday.

"Air defense systems intercepted 21 HIMARS and Uragan rockets," it said.

Apart from that, according to the ministry, thirty-three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were jammed and destroyed by electronic warfare means near the settlements of Topolevka, Zaliman, and Krasnorechenskoye in the Lugansk People’s Republic, Berestovoye, Petrovskoye, Semigorye, and Veseloye in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Kharkovo, Romanovskoye, Mirnoye, and Ocheretovatoye in the Zaporozhye Region, and Golaya Pristan and Novaya Mayachka in the Kherson Region.

According to the ministry, as many as 467 planes, 248 helicopters, 6,409 unmanned aerial vehicles, 435 air defense systems, 11,653 tanks and other armored vehicles, 1,148 multiple rocket launch systems, 6,230 artillery systems and mortars, and 12,715 special military cars have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.