Russia claims to have downed Ukrainian warships and bombers

Firefighters at a school in the village of Bilohorivka in eastern Ukraine reuters

According to Reuters, the Russian Defense Ministry on May 8 announced that it had destroyed a Ukrainian corvette near Odessa by missiles, besides many targets military other.

Accordingly, the rockets hit a escort ship Project 1241, Soviet class of missile corvettes that NATO calls Tarantul.

Major General Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, said that Russian forces also shot down a Su-24 bomber, a Su-27 fighter, three Mi-8 helicopters, and two unmanned aerial vehicles. (UAV) Bayraktar-TB2 in the area of ​​Snake island in the Black Sea.

In addition, according to TASS, the Russian Armed Forces also used Iskander missiles to eliminate weapons provided by the United States and the European Union (EU) to Ukraine, as well as destroy soldiers of the motorized infantry brigade. Ukraine’s 58th border near the Krasnograd and Karlovka train stations in the Kharkiv region.

Konashenkov also said that Russia used precision missiles to attack 42 areas of concentration of manpower and two ammunition depots of Ukraine.

Since the beginning of the campaign, Russia has shot down 154 aircraft, 115 helicopters, 764 UAVs, 296 surface-to-air missile systems, 2,902 tanks and other armored vehicles, 333 multiple rocket launchers, 1,378 artillery and 2,728 Ukrainian military vehicles.

Meanwhile, page Kyiv Independent On May 8, citing information from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russia lost 1,130 tanks, 2,741 armored personnel carriers, 1,961 military vehicles, 509 cannons, 179 multiple rocket launchers, 86 air defense systems. , 156 helicopters, 199 aircraft, 360 UAVs and 12 ships, in addition to 25,500 soldiers.

Up to now, the two sides have not confirmed the damage information given by the other.

According to CNN, the Ukrainian military previously reported fighting near Snake Island but did not comment on any casualties. The Ukrainian side also released an image recorded by a UAV showing Ukrainian forces destroying a Russian landing craft on the island.

In addition, the Ukrainian side said that it had launched anti-aircraft missiles that destroyed one Mi-28H . helicopter of Russia, along with many UAVs.

In another report on the fighting, Governor Serhiy Gaidai of Luhansk province in Ukraine said that the Russian side bombed a school in the village of Bilohorivka in eastern Ukraine, killing two people and leaving 60 suspected dead in the rubble.

He said Russian forces bombed on the afternoon of May 7 (local time) at the school where 90 people were sheltering, causing the building to catch fire.

“The fire was put out after nearly four hours, the wreckage was cleared and unfortunately two bodies were discovered. Thirty people have been evacuated, of which seven are injured, and 60 people appear to have died under the rubble of the building,” he said.

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry strongly condemns Russia’s bombing of the school. The Russian side has not commented on the above information, but has repeatedly confirmed that the operation is only aimed at Ukraine’s military infrastructure.

On the front near the city of Izium, Russian forces made little progress, while having to defend near Kharkiv because the Ukrainian side continued to counterattack, CNN reported on May 8, citing information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. .

Accordingly, Russia controlled the area north of the village of Shandryholove, while trying to push south from the Izium region into the Donetsk region.