The Russian Defense Ministry announced today, Monday, that up to 250 foreign militants were killed by a Russian missile strike, which targeted the deployment center of the Ukrainian "Foreign Legion" mercenaries in Donbass, according to the ministry's spokesman Igor Konashenkov.

Konashenkov explained that the strike was carried out with high-precision missiles launched from the air at the aforementioned site in the town of Konstantinovka in the Donetsk Republic, and led to the destruction of seven armored vehicles and 12 special vehicles.

Konashenkov stated that as a result of a strike with high-precision long-range weapons against a temporary deployment point of one of the battalions of the territorial defense brigade in the Cherkasy region, 60 militants were eliminated, two rocket launchers and four guns were destroyed.

Raids by the Russian forces in Donetsk hit more than 10 Grad rocket launchers and 8 pieces of armored vehicles, while missile artillery shelling of a Ukrainian military field airport in Donetsk also destroyed two Mi-8 helicopters and severely damaged two other helicopters.

Two batteries of Uragan launchers, three platoons of Grad launchers, 14 artillery platoons of Gyatsent-B howitzers and D-30 guns were hit in Donetsk.

Yesterday, the Russian aviation, missile and artillery forces hit 14 command posts, in addition to military forces and equipment in 286 areas. Among the destroyed targets were a Buk-M1 aircraft system, three depots for missile and artillery systems, and a fuel depot.

Russian air defenses shot down 6 Ukrainian drones during the day.

A total of 257 Ukrainian planes, 142 helicopters, 1,564 drones, 356 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,099 tanks and other armored vehicles, 759 rocket launchers, 3157 pieces of field artillery and mortars, and 4,392 special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation. .