MOSCOW — Russian air defences shot down three guided aerial bombs, a U.S.-made HIMARS rocket and 1,065 fixed-wing drones over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry reported, according to TASS.
“Air defenses shot down three guided aerial bombs, a US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system rocket and 1,065 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles,” the Defense Ministry said.
Russian forces also struck targets across Ukraine in the same period, the ministry said. The list included military airfields, energy and transport infrastructure used by Ukrainian forces, drone production facilities and their storage and launch sites, ammunition depots and troop deployment sites.
Those strikes were carried out by operational-tactical aircraft, attack drones, missile forces and artillery of Russian battlegroups, and hit temporary deployment sites of Ukrainian armed formations in 149 areas, according to the ministry.
Casualties by battlegroup
The ministry put Ukrainian troop losses at around 1,120 over the past 24 hours.
By battlegroup, it said Ukrainian forces lost up to 150 personnel in the Battlegroup North area, up to 210 in the Battlegroup West area, more than 180 in the Battlegroup South area and up to 350 in the Battlegroup Center area. The Battlegroup East figure was more than 200, and the Battlegroup Dnepr figure was up to 30.
The report came after Ukraine’s General Staff said its Defence Forces struck oil and rubber plants in Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan, overnight on Nov. 15, in an attack the city’s mayor said injured several people.
The Defense Ministry’s figures and strike claims could not be independently verified.