The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are continuing a special military operation in Ukraine.
During the morning briefing, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, reported that on April 16, high-precision long-range missiles fired from the air destroyed the production buildings of the armored factory in Kiev and the military repair shop. equipment in Nikolaev. At night, high-precision air-fired missiles hit 16 enemy targets.
In addition, the operational-tactical aviation destroyed 67 areas of concentration of Ukrainian personnel and military equipment during the night. Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 in the air 15 kilometers south of the village of Izyum. Rocket forces and artillery hit 811 targets, including: 43 command posts of Ukrainian troops, 8 convoys with fuel for military equipment, as well as 760 concentration sites of the enemy’s workforce.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, since the beginning of the special military operation, 133 aircraft, 458 unmanned aerial vehicles, 246 anti-aircraft missile sets, 2,246 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 252 rocket launchers have been destroyed. , 981 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,146 units of special military vehicles.
