MOSCOW. Dec 6 (Interfax) - Russian air defense forces shot down 76 Ukrainian drones over the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions and the Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (LPR) People's Republics over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
"Seventy-six Ukrainian drones were destroyed near Ilchenkovo, Novoye, Kharkovo, Mirnoye and Peremozhnoye in the Zaporozhye region, Sagi and Radensk in the Kherson region, Vladimirovka and Kirillovka in the DPR, and Belogorovka and Shipilovka in the LPR," the ministry said.
Eight HIMARS missiles and a JDAM guided air-launched bomb were also destroyed, he said.
"A total of 549 [Ukrainian] planes, 257 helicopters, 9,541 unmanned aerial vehicles, and 442 anti-aircraft missile systems have been destroyed since the start of the special military operation," the ministry said.