Missile event in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Zvonetskoe area, Ukraine on Mon 2nd October 2023

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation claimed to destroy the headquarters and base of Dnepr nationalist battalion in Zvonetskoe, Dnepropetrovsk Region, where foreign mercenaries had recently arrived, according to a statement by the Russian Defence Ministry. During the night, high-precision sea-based and air-based missiles near Starobogdanovka in Nikolaev Region and at Chuhuev military airfield destroyed launchers of the Ukrainian S-300 surface-to-air missile systems discovered by reconnaissance, the statement read. Operational-tactical aviation hit 86 military assets of Ukraine. Among them were 2 command posts, 2 ammunition depots, 3 fuel depots, 3 multiple launch rocket systems, and 49 strong points and areas of Ukrainian military equipment concentration. The Defence Ministry statement also gave numbers of helicopters, anti-aircraft missile systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, and other armoured combat vehicles, as well as special military vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces that were destroyed so far by Russia.