Ukraine’s forces destroy 5 Russian air targets, shoot down plane

12:30 | 17.05.2022
Ukraine’s forces destroy 5 Russian air targets, shoot down plane

Ukraine’s forces destroy 5 Russian air targets, shoot down plane

Over the past day, Ukraine’s air defense units of the Land Forces and the Air Force have hit five air targets: a Su-25 aircraft, three operational-tactical UAVs and a cruise missile, reported from the Facebook page of the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces.

Eleven enemy attacks were repulsed in Donetsk and Luhansk over the past 24 hours, five tanks, one Tor anti-aircraft missile system, six artillery systems, twelve units of armored combat vehicles and one enemy vehicle were destroyed.

"The eighty-third day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. Russian enemy does not stop offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone. Russian enemy focused its main efforts on the Donetsk direction.

In the northern direction, Russian enemy continues to provide enhanced protection of the Ukrainian-Russian border. In the area of ​​the settlement of Bilokopytove, Sumy region, Russian enemy fired mortars at units of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine,” reads the report.

"In the Lyman direction, Russian enemy conducted offensive operations in the area of ​​the settlement of Drobysheve. Strengthens troop groups. In the Severodonetsk direction, near the settlement of Sirotyne, Russian enemy suffered losses during the fighting and withdrew. In the Bessarabian direction, as a result of a missile strike from Russian strategic aircraft, in the Belgorod-Dniester district of Odesa region, objects of civil infrastructure were affected, private buildings were destroyed," the report reads.

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