We destroyed 287 aircraft, 151 helicopters, 4,804 tanks and armored vehicles belonging to Ukraine.

Russia: Nearly 5,000 Ukrainian tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed

Spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov stated that they have destroyed 287 aircraft, 151 helicopters and 4,804 tanks and armored vehicles belonging to the Ukrainian army so far.

Konashenkov made statements about the actions of the Russian army in the war in Ukraine.

Stating that the attempts of the Ukrainian troops to maintain their positions in certain areas in the direction of Mykolaiv and Krivorojskiy were unsuccessful, Konashenkov stated that the aircraft, missile and artillery units of the Russian air force under fire the troops and reserves of the Ukrainian army.

Konashenkov claimed that in one day, 11 tanks of the Ukrainian army, 17 infantry fighting vehicles, including 4 US-made ‘Bradley’, 10 armored vehicles, 5 heavy machine-gun pickups and more than 150 soldiers were neutralized in Romanovka in the Mykolaiv region. He stated that a Ukrainian Su-25 fighter plane was shot down by Russian planes near the settlement.

Pointing out that the Russian air force hit the temporary deployment point and ammunition depot of the 80th Airborne troops of the Ukrainian army in Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region with high-precision weapons, Konashenkov claimed that more than 120 Ukrainian soldiers were neutralized in these attacks.

Stating that 110 Ukrainian forces were hit in Gusarovka in the Kharkiv region and in Adamovka in the Donetsk region, Konashenkov reported that around 50 foreign mercenary fighters were killed in the attacks with high-precision weapons against the Kurahovo settlement in the Donetsk region.

Konashenkov, “287 aircraft, 151 helicopters, 1872 unmanned aerial vehicles, 372 air defense missile systems, 4 thousand 804 tanks and armored vehicles, 824 multi-barrel rocket launchers, 3 thousand 367 howitzers and mortars, 5 thousand 276 military vehicles were destroyed.” used the phrases.

Arguing that despite the presence of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) delegation at the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant, the Kyiv administration continues to provocation to create a man-made disaster threat, Konashenkov stated that on September 3, the Ukrainian army used 8 unmanned aerial vehicles with ammunition attached to attack the power plant.

Noting that the unmanned aerial vehicles approaching the power plant were blocked by Russian electronic warfare vehicles, Konashenkov stated that the radiation situation at the power plant was normal.