The Russian Defense Ministry reports that a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet was shot down during an air battle near Slovyansk. In total, since the beginning of the military operation, 146 aircraft, as well as 112 helicopters and 683 UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, have been destroyed.
In addition, Russian air defense systems destroyed 10 Ukrainian drones and two Tochka-U missiles in a day. In addition, the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 38 Ukrainian military facilities with high-precision air-launched missiles in a day.
And the operational-tactical and army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 27 strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense officially announced that on Saturday 80 civilians left the Azovstal metallurgical plant. At the same time, some of them were taken to the DPR in the village of Bezymennoe. Some wished to go to the territories controlled by the Ukrainian military. The second was handed over to representatives of the UN and the Red Cross.
