
A few days earlier, Czechia and Slovakia announced that they had donated some Soviet S-300 anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine and in exchange would receive the Patriot defense system.
But, it appears that the S-300 defense system, the predecessor of the famous Russian S-400 has been destroyed, at least according to a Moscow announcement.
Speaking during a press conference in Moscow, where he gave information about the actions of Russian military units in the ongoing February 24th war in Ukraine, Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov suggested that high-precision weapons were used sunday against targets in Ukraine.
"On Sunday, April 10, in the southern suburbs of the city of Dnepropetrovsk, high-precision "Kalibr" missiles destroyed from the sea 1 "S-300" air defense missile system hidden in a hangar, which was handed over to the Kiev regime by one of the European countries. Four "S-300" launchers and up to one military personnel were also hit, Igor Konashenkov said.
He also said that a repair object with two air defence systems "Buk-M1" and "Osa AKM" were hit by air with high-precision missiles near donjeck's Velika Novosilka settlement.
In addition – russian Defence Ministry spokesman – 2 ammunition depots in Mikolaiv and Zhovtnevoye came; 1 radar for running the "S-300" system in Uspenovki; As well as 9 tanks, 5 self-moving artillery batteries (obus), 5 multi-gorge missile launchers "Grad" and more than 60 nationalists were destroyed with high-sensitivity weapons near Vozdvizhenka and Ivanovka, in the Donjeck region, last night.
"Russian air defense systems downed 2 "Su-25" fighter jets and 4 unmanned aerial vehicles near Izium," Konashenkov said, adding that a "Mi-24" helicopter also crashed with fire focused on small weapons.
According to him, Russia also hit 78 Ukrainian military infrastructure facilities, including 3 command points, 1 lighting and direction radar, 3 positions of short-range antiaircraft missile systems and 4 ammunition depots.
"To date, 129 aircraft have been destroyed, 99 helicopters, 243 air defense missile systems "S-300", "Buk-M1" and "Osa AKM", 441 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,079 tanks and armoured vehicles, 239 multi-gorge missile launchers, 909 obusa and mortars, as well as 2,003 special Ukrainian army military vehicles," Konashenkov concluded.
Last week, Prime Minister Edward Heger of Slovakia announced the transfer to Ukraine of the "S-300" air defense missile system, which was in his country's military inventory.
At least 1,793 civilians have been killed and another 2,439 injured in Ukraine, according to United Nations estimates, with the real figures allegedly likely to be much higher.
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) suggests that about 4.5 million Ukrainians have fled to other countries and more than 7 million more have been internally displaced.