MOSCOW, March 10. /TASS/. Air defense assets of the Russian Battlegroup South shot down 49 drones, three HIMARS rocket projectiles, and a Hammer guided air bomb, Battlegroup Spokesman Sergey Rumyantsev told TASS.

Group’s air defense systems shot down "49 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the vicinity of Yasinovataya, Novoandreevka and Yakovlevka of the Donetsk People’s Republic, three HIMARS rocket projectiles, and the Hammer guided air bomb," the spokesman said.

The Ukrainian army lost more than 300 servicemen, Rumyantsev added. A tank, two armored fighting vehicles, seven automobiles, a Strela-10 air defense system and an ammunition depot were engaged by antitank guided missiles and loitering munitions. The Russian troops also destroyed a 152-mm D-20 howitzer during counterbattery operations.