
One of the Bayraktar TB-2 drones shot down in the Kyiv region. File photoMOSCOW, June 18 Russian air defense systems have shot down eight Ukrainian drones over the past 24 hours, including a Bayraktar-TB2 strike drone near Kherson, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov said on Saturday .In addition, Russian air defense shot down eight Ukrainian drones in the Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporozhye regions, as well as four Tochka-U missiles and 24 missiles of the Uragan multiple launch rocket system in a day.
Russian Armed Forces destroyed four Ukrainian platoons with American howitzers

