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MOSCOW, May 28. Russian air defense systems shot down 18 Ukrainian drones and one Mi-helicopter in a day 8, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said on Saturday. .
Russian aviation shot down two Ukrainian Su-25s in a day LPR. In addition, a Ukrainian Tochka-U missile was intercepted in the Svatovo region of the DPR, seven Smerch MLRS rockets were shot down in the areas of Sukhaya Kamenka, Kharkiv region and Golaya Pristan, Kherson region. th operation in Ukraine on February 24. 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, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.