Russian military reported destroyed Ukrainian S-300s

The launchers of the anti-aircraft missile system were located in the Kharkov and Nikolaev regions *View of the building of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

The Russian military destroyed the launchers of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, discovered by intelligence, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

“High-precision air-launched missiles in the area of ​​​​the village of Starobogdanovka, Mykolaiv region and at the military airfield Chuguev (Kharkiv region. -) destroyed the launchers of Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems identified by reconnaissance,” the report says.

In addition, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, the military destroyed the headquarters and base of the nationalist battalion "Dnepr" with high-precision sea-based missiles, where, according to the Ministry of Defense, foreign mercenaries had recently arrived. Also, air defense systems shot down eight drones.

In total, according to the agency, since the beginning of the special military operation, 127 aircraft, 98 helicopters, 234 S-300, Buk-M1, Osa AKM anti-aircraft missile systems, 436 drones, 2052 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 232 installations of multiple launch rocket systems, 894 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 1975 units of special military vehicles.

At the request of Roskomnadzor, RBC provides data on the details of the military operation in Ukraine based on information from Russian official sources.

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S-300 air defense systems were developed in the USSR in the first half of the 1970s, they are designed to destroy tactical and strategic aircraft. The S-300 consists of a command post with a detection RADAR (RLS), with which up to six anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs) are associated.

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On April 8, Slovakia announced that it had handed over to Ukraine the only S-300 complex that it had in service. In return, Bratislava received an American Patriot anti-aircraft missile system, but “temporarily,” as the Pentagon noted, since “long-term solutions” are still being discussed.

In mid-March, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked Washington to transfer the S-300 "and other similar systems" to Kyiv.