Russian soldier in Ukraine. File photoMOSCOW, May 5.Russian air defense systems shot down three Ukrainian drones in a day, including one Bayraktar, Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, said on Thursday. Kharkiv region, Seversk, Luhansk People's Republic, as well as in the vicinity of the Zmeiny Island, the Bayraktar TB-2 unmanned aerial vehicle,» he said.The West is very scared: Russia is winning Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, Russian troops have destroyed more than 5.5 thousand Ukrainian tanks, special military vehicles and other armored vehicles, Igor Konashenkov said. 729 unmanned aerial vehicles, 288 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,846 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 327 multiple rocket launchers, 1,323 field artillery and mortars, and 2,662 units of special military vehicles,» he said. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and On March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
