MOSCOW. March 22 (Interfax) - Russian troops have downed a Ukrainian Mil Mi-8 helicopter in the Kharkov region, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.
"Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces downed a Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force in the area of the Malye Krynki settlement in the Kharkov region," Konashenkov said at a briefing on Wednesday.
Russian air defense systems downed 26 Ukrainian drones in the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions in the past 24 hours, he said.
According to Konashenkov, three HIMARS rockets were intercepted.
"A total of 403 aircraft, 224 helicopters, 3,528 unmanned aerial vehicles, 414 air defense missile systems, 8,370 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,070 multiple rocket launchers, 4,410 field artillery guns and mortars, and 9,052 special military vehicles have been destroyed since the start of the special military operation," he said.