Moscow (Times Of Ocean)- The Russian military has destroyed more than 100 aircraft, helicopters, and over 2,200 tanks and armored vehicles used by the Ukrainian military, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Friday. aerial vehicles
According to Igor Konashenkov, military units prevented a missile attack by the Ukrainian armed forces on the Kahov Hydroelectric Power Station, which regulates the flow of the Dnieper River, supplies electricity to Kherson, as well as provides water to agricultural areas in southern Ukraine and northern Crimea.
Konashenkov said the Tokka-U missiles fired at the dam were shot down and fragments fell on the settlement of Novoya Kahovka, injuring a woman and a child.
As Konashenkov confirmed, high-precision missiles struck military targets in Ukraine in the last 24 hours, including troops, weapons, and arsenals.
The Russian air force destroyed six Ukrainian military objects, and “132 aircraft, 105 helicopters, 245 air defense missile systems, and 457 unmanned aerial vehicles” of the Ukrainian military were destroyed.
As many as 2,123 private military vehicles were also destroyed by Moscow, he said, in addition to 2,224 tanks and armored vehicles, 251 multi-barrel rocket launchers, 971 howitzers and mortars.
Approximately 1,982 civilians have been killed and 2,651 injured since the start of the war in late February, according to UN estimates, with the real number expected to be much higher.
The UNHCR more than 4.6 million Ukrainians have fled to other countries and over 7 million others are internally displaced.