MOSCOW. March 5 (Interfax) - Russian air defense has downed a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet and 112 drones in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
"Air defense has downed a MiG-29 fighter jet of the Ukrainian Air Force near Lyubomirovka in the Nikolayev region," the ministry said.
Four HIMARS projectiles were intercepted over the day, it said.
"Additionally, 112 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been destroyed, in particular, near Peschanoye, Nikolskoye, Staromikhailovka and Lastochkino in the Donetsk People's Republic and Romanovskoye in the Zaporozhye region," the ministry said.