Anti-aircraft missile and gun system (ZRPK) «Pantsir-S1» at the field airfield of the Russian Aerospace Forces. File photoMOSCOW, June 21Russian air defense shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft, 19 drones and intercepted 5 Tochka-U missiles and 30 Uragan MLRS shells, according to a Russian Defense Ministry report circulated on Tuesday. «Russian air defense troops shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force near the village of Mazanovka, Kharkiv region,» the document says. It is noted that 19 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were also shot down in the air in the areas of the settlements of Krutaya Balka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Dibrovo, Kapitolovka, Liptsy and Plants of the Kharkov region. «In addition, five Tochka-U tactical missiles were intercepted, as well as 30 jet shells of the Uragan MLRS in the areas of the settlements of Lozovsky of the Luhansk People's Republic, Lozovaya, Kremenets, Aleksandrovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Dolgenka and Topolskoye of the Kharkov region,» the military clarifies.Ukrainian Su-25s attacked the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Dnepropetrovsk region
